394. Larissa.  Circa 370’s-360’s BC. AR Drachm (6.00 gm). Head of the nymph
Larissa facing slightly left, hair above ampyx combed straight back / Horse
standing  right, grazing;   LARI in  exergue,  SAIWN  above. Lorber  -; cf.
Herrmann group  VII, series B; SNG  Copenhagen -; cf. BMC  Thessaly pg. 31,
76; SNG  Ashmolean -; SNG Lockett  -; SNG Fitzwilliam -;  SNG Delepierre -.
Good VF, beautiful platinum toning. Apparently unpublished variety. ($400)

The following  lots present many varieties  of the ‘late group’ (Herrmann’s
group  VII,   series  A)   of  Larissa’s  facing   head  drachms.  Lorber’s
interpretation of  the evidence of a number of  hoards leads her to propose
that this group was  issued circa 350’s-340’s BC, when Philip II of Macedon
took a prominent role in Thessalian politics through his involvement in the
Third Sacred  War. Lorber places her  phases L-I and II  as ending pre 348,
with phase L-III already in production by that date.


CNG Mail bid sale #58, 18 Sept 2001, lot 394.
 
 Lot sold for $451.


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