Ex BCD and Ward Collections

456, Lot: 110. Estimate $500. Sold for $900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THESSALY, Larissa. Circa 400-370 BC. AR Drachm (17.5mm, 6.07 g, 7h). Head of the nymph Larissa facing slightly left, wearing ampyx [inscribed ΓΕΥ]; AI above / Horse standing right, preparing to lie down; AI below. L&S Group 3, Head Type 14, dies O36/R1, b = BCD Thessaly II 211 = Ward 446 (this coin); HGC 4, 434. Toned, with some iridescence. VF.

Ex BCD Collection (Triton XV, 3 January 2012), lot 211; John Ward Collection - Metropolitan Museum of Art (Sotheby's Zurich, 4 April 1973), lot 367; Sir Hyman Montagu Collection (Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge, 15 March 1897), lot 179 (part of).