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Auction 96  14-15 February 2017
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Lot 1632

Starting price: 5000 USD
Price realized: 9250 USD
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Thessaly, Larissa. Silver Stater (12.16 g), ca. 356-342 BC. Head of the nymph Larissa facing slightly left, hair bound in ampyx. Reverse: ΛAPI-Σ-AIΩN, bridled stallion trotting right. Lorber & Shahar type 2, series A, dies O3/R3; BCD Thessaly II 306 (same dies). A beautiful and boldly struck example. Extremely Fine. Estimate Value $5,000 - 6,000
From the Herbert & Aphrodite Rubin Collection; Purchased privately from E. Waddell in the early 1990s.
BCD's note in the catalogue of his collection for his coin from the same dies: "In the writer's opinion this obverse die cannot be bettered for beauty and charm."
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