Thessaly, Larissa, Drachm 460-420 BC

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Description

Thessaly. Larissa. AR-Drachm (17.8mm, 6.03g, 9h) ca. 460-420 BC.
Obverse: Thessalos, nude but for cloak over his shoulders and petasos hanging from a cord around his neck, holding a band in both his hands around the head of a bull rushing to right //
Reverse: Bridled horse with loose rein prancing right, ΛΑ above, ΡΙΣ retrograde below, all within incuse square.

SNG Copenhagen 99 (same dies); BMC 16; Herrmann -, but Group III; Lorber 2008, p; 42, 43.

Attractive old cabinet toning. Good Very Fine

Provenance Details

Ex Rietdijk Auction 369, July 2000, lot 821.

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