Ex BCD, Collignon, and Hoskier Collections
Herrmann Plate Coin

Triton XX, Lot: 133. Estimate $2000. Sold for $2000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THESSALY, Larissa. Circa 404 BC. AR Drachm (18.5mm, 6.05 g, 3h). Head of the nymph Larissa left, hair bound in sakkos, wearing single-pendant earring / Bridled horse leaping right; ΛΑΡΙ/Σ-ΑΙΑ above and below; all within incuse square. Lorber, Profile, dies A10’’/P22, specimen d = BCD Thessaly II 180 = Herrmann pl. IV, 11 (this coin); HGC 4, 427 (this coin referenced); SNG Delepierre 1111 (same dies); BMC 47 (same dies); Traité IV 693 (same dies as illustration). Near EF, attractive old collection toning, slightly off center on reverse.

Ex Roma IV (30 September 2012), lot 130; BCD Collection (Triton XV, 3 January 2012), lot 180; Vinchon (13 April 1985), lot 262; Bourgey (5 December 1932), lot 158; Maxime Collignon Collection (Feuardent, 17 December 1919), lot 220; H. C. Hoskier Collection (J. Hirsch XX, 13 November 1907), lot 268.