292, Lot: 70. Estimate $200. Sold for $340. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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THESSALY, Larissa. Circa 405/0-370 BC. AR Drachm (18mm, 6.03 g, 10h). Head of the nymph Larissa facing slightly right, wearing ampyx and necklace / ΛAPI above, horse grazing right on dotted groundline. L-S group 4, head type 19, dies O72/R3; BCD Thessaly II 237 (same obv. die). VF, deep cabinet tone, slight reverse die shift.
From the BCD Collection. Purchased from Spink’s, April 1984, for £400. Ex Hartwig Collection (Santamaria, 7 March 1910), lot 744.