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311, Lot: 120. Estimate $200.
Sold for $450. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THESSALY, Larissa. Circa 405/0-370 BC. AR Drachm (18mm, 6.18 g, 9h). Head of the nymph Larissa facing slightly left, wearing ampyx inscribed [ΓEY], earring, garment clasp on her right shoulder, and necklace; tiny [IA] above head / ΛAPIΣAI, horse right, about to roll; boukranion on haunch, tiny AI below belly. L-S group 3, head type 14, dies O31/R1 for O33 [unlisted combination]); BCD Thessaly II 205 (same obv. die). VF, toned, light obverse die rust.


From the BCD Collection. Ex Sotheby’s (9 December 1993), lot 123 (part of).

The Sotheby’s sale featured the stock of the Los Angeles firm Numismatic Fine Arts. The coin is possibly from the ‘1989 Unknown Findspot Hoard’ (CH IX, 65), which was handled by NFA.