LARISSA SILVER HEMIDRACHM – SCARCE LATER ISSUE ON AEGINETIC STANDARD – VF GREEK THESSALY COIN (Inv. 19884)

$285.00

19884. THESSALY, LARISSA. Ca. 3rd–2nd CENTURIES BC.
Silver Hemidrachm or Triobol, 2.15 g, 14 mm.
Obv. Head of the nymph Larissa, facing slightly left. Rev. ΛΑΡΙΣ, horse right, preparing to lie down, M control monogram below.
BCD Thessaly II, 340; HGC 4, 514.
Ex Central Texas Collection, acquired from Nilus Coins, inv. 30578, with his ticket.
VF, slight granularity, scarce emission with only five specimens of this issue on CoinArchives. This hemidrachm/triobol is a later issue struck to a reduced Aeginetic standard that copies its types from Larissa’s famous full–weight didrachm coinage of the later fourth century BC (see HGC 4, 453–454).