Two Stunning Larissa Drachms

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Sold For $34500

THESSALY, Larissa. Circa 404 BC. AR Drachm (20mm, 6.07 g, 5h). Head of the nymph Larissa right, hair bound in sakkos, wearing single-pendant earring / Bridled horse leaping right; ΛAPIΣA above, A below. Lorber, Profile 23.1 (A7/P13) = Traité IV 695, p. CCXCVIII, 5 = Nanteuil 842 = BCD Thessaly I 1131 (this coin); cf. BCD Thessaly II 181; HGC 4, 428 (this coin cited and illustrated). EF, toned. Struck on a broad flan.

Ex BCD Collection (Nomos 4, 10 May 2011), lot 1131; Leu 30 (28 April 1982), lot 99; Henri de Nanteuil Collection, no. 842; Bourgey (7 June 1909), lot 228.