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Auction 26  21 May 2023
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Lot 280

Estimate: 400 CHF
Price realized: 2200 CHF
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THESSALY. Larissa. Circa 460-440 BC. Trihemiobol (Silver, 14 mm, 1.55 g, 10 h). ΣΟ (retrograde) Horseman, wearing petasos and chlamys and carrying two spears, riding horse walking to left. Rev. ΛΑ-Ρ / ΙΣΑ (retrograde) The nymph Larissa seated to right on a chair, the of which terminates in a swan's head, holding a ball in her raised right hand and holding a hoop with her left . BCD Thessaly II, 360.2 (same dies). De Nanteuil 839 (this coin). An elegantly designed and attractive coin, nicely toned. Good very fine.
From the "Collection sans Pareille" of Ancient Greek Fractions, ex Giessener Münzhandlung 48, 1990, 277, from the collection of H. de Nanteuil, Hess-Leu 28, 5 May 1965, 166, and from the stock of A. Cantoni, Milan, Naville V, 18 June 1923, 1736 (bought for Nanteuil by Spink).
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