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Auction 15  22 Oct 2017
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Lot 93

Estimate: 2750 CHF
Price realized: 3000 CHF
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GREEK COINS

Thessaly. Larissa. Early to mid 4th Century BC. Drachm (Silver, 19 mm, 6.03 g, 1 h). Head of the nymph Larissa to right, her hair bound in a plain sakkos. Rev. ΛΑΡΙ-ΣΑΙA (partially retrograde) Bridled horse prancing left, its rein trailing below, all in incuse square. BCD II 376.4 var. (reverse in round incuse). Lorber pl. 43, 62. Very rare. A coin of great beauty, struck from a particularly elegant obverse die. Nearly extremely fine.

Ex Obolos 5, 26 June 2016, 182 and privately purchased from Tradart in the 1990s.

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