Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 866. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $450. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THESSALY, Larissa. Circa 356-342 BC. AR Drachm (6.10 g, 12h). Diademed head of the nymph Larissa facing slightly left, wearing ampyx, triple-pendant earring, and necklace / LARIS-AIWN, horse grazing left. Lorber, Hoard phase L-III; Herrmann Group VIII, Series A, pl. V, 4 var. (legend orientation); SNG Copenhagen -; BMC -; CNG 60, lot 492 (same dies). EF, deposits in hair. Very rare with this legend variety. ($750)