399, Lot: 106. Estimate $150. Sold for $160. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THESSALY, Larissa. Circa 365-342 BC. AR Drachm (18mm, 5.97 g, 5h). Head of the nymph Larissa facing slightly left, wearing ampyx / ΛAPI-Σ/AIΩN, horse right, about to lie down. Cf. Lorber, Hoard, Groups L-II to L-IV; BCD Thessaly II 280 var. (same dies); HGC 4, 453 (same dies as illustration). VF, toned.

From the BCD Collection. Ex Münzen und Medaillen GmbH 9 (4 October 2001), lot 207.

From the same above die as BCD 280, which, according to Jacob Hirsch, is “...d’un style tout à fait remarqable et d’un joli relief.” Although BCD placed this issue within the Middle Facing Head series, it likely that it belongs among the Late Facing Head period based on two significant of factors. First, the reverse, with the horse is crouching right and the legend oriented in this manner, is canonical for the Late series. Second, the curls at the top of Larissa’s head, resembling horns, is not found earlier than subgroup L-II in the Late series. The style of the obverse portrait, though, is quite different from the L-II through L-IV subgroups, so its placement in relative to those is not certain.