Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 279. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $1800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THESSALY, Larissa. Circa 400-380 BC. AR Drachm (6.10 gm, 8h). Obverse and reverse dies signed by Ai-. Head of the nymph Larissa facing slightly left, right shoulder raised; [GEU on ampyx], small AI above head / LARISAI, horse grazing right, bucranium branded on rump; AI below. Lorber, Early, 21.1a (this coin); Herrmann Group VI, pl. IV, 17; BMC Thessaly -; SNG Copenhagen 126; McClean 4617 (same dies). Superb EF, iridescent toning around devices, obverse die a little worn in hair. Among the finest dies in the series. ($3000)

From the Ronald Cohen Collection.