410, Lot: 49. Estimate $75. Sold for $100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THESSALY, Larissa. Mid-late 4th century BC. Æ Dichalkon (17mm, 3.94 g, 11h). Head of the nymph Larissa right / ΛΑΡΙ\ΣΑΙΩΝ, horse standing right, preparing to lie down; cm: head of ram left in incuse circle. Rogers 288; BCD Thessaly II 390.4; HGC 4, 521. VF, dark brown patina.

From the BCD Collection.

The ram head countermark may have been applied by Gonnos, to allow these bronzes to circulate in their territory, as their own issues of bronze were so small.