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CNG 96, Lot: 174. Estimate $200.
Sold for $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THESSALY, Larissa. Circa 405/0-370 BC. AR Drachm (18mm, 5.99 g, 11h). Early facing head type. Head of the nymph Larissa facing slightly right, with hair in ampyx / Horse grazing right. L-S Group 3, Head Type 17, dies O55/R4, a (this coin); BCD Thessaly II 215 (same obv. die). VF, toned, die breaks, graffito below horse. The only example known from this reverse die.


From the BCD Collection. Ex Thessaly, c. 1996 Hoard (CH IX, 77).