LARISSA SILVER DRACHM – MARE AND FOAL ISSUE EX 1982/3 EAST OF MYOUS HOARD – GOOD VF GREEK THESSALY DRACHM (Inv. 19879)

$1,200.00

19879. THESSALY, LARISSA. Ca. 365–356 BC.
Silver Drachm, 6.12 g, 20 mm.
Obv. Head of the nymph Larissa slightly left. Rev. [ΛAPI]/ΣAIΩN, mare and foal to right.
C. Lorber & C. Shahar, The Silver Facing Head Coins of Larissa, Series 7, Type C, dies O17/R1; BCD Thessaly I, 1153 (same dies); HGC 4, 444.
Ex Central Texas Collection, acquired from Nilus Coins, inv. 32525, with his ticket = ex BCD, CNG Electronic Auction 407, 10/11/2017, lot 83, with CNG ticket as well as polaroids of the coin and circular tag citing “1982/83 east of Myous Hd”. While the BCD provenance is given, it is not one of the coins in the BCD sales.
Good VF.

According to the ticket accompanying this coin, it originally came from the East of Myous, 1982/83 hoard (CH VIII, 138), which closed ca. 340 BC and included 27 Larissan drachms among its contents. This seems to be the same hoard published by Catharine Lorber in 2000, “A Hoard of Facing Head Larissa Drachms” in Revue Suisse de Numismatique 79 (2000), pp. 7–15. Judging from the weight, types and description, the present drachm appears to be the same piece as coin no. 10 in Lorber’s catalogue, although, unfortunately, it is not illustrated in the plates.