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Live auction - bgr_522025 - THESSALY - LARISSA Statère ou didrachme

THESSALY - LARISSA Statère ou didrachme AU/XF
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Estimate : 2 000 €
Price : 950 €
Maximum bid : 1 001 €
End of the sale : 05 March 2019 14:15:59
bidders : 1 bidder
Type : Statère ou didrachme
Date: c. 350-344 AC
Mint name / Town : Larissa, Thessalie
Metal : silver
Diameter : 24,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 11,90 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan parfaitement centré des deux côtés. Portrait à l’expression saisissante avec un minuscule petit défaut sur le cou. Revers de style fin à l’usure régulière. Métal légèrement granuleux et piqué au revers
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de MONNAIES 32, n° 34, de MONNAIES 36, n° 117 (1.500€), de MONNAIES 43, n° 108 et du stock CGB (bgr_239386)

Obverse


Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête de la nymphe Larissa de face tournée de trois-quarts à gauche, les cheveux flottants, retenus par un bandeau (ampyx) avec boucles d'oreille et collier.

Reverse


Reverse description : Cheval passant au trot à droite, levant l'antérieur droit avec la bride sur le cou.
Reverse legend : LARI//SAIWN/ [M].
Reverse translation : (de Larissa).

Commentary


Expression de visage extraordinaire au droit. Défaut de métal sur le cou.

Historical background


THESSALY - LARISSA

(400-344 BC)

Larissa, the most important city of Thessaly, takes its name from one of the daughters of the mythical king Pelasgos. Built on the right bank of the Peneios, the city was famous for its horse breeding and Thessalos, the eponymous hero of the region, trained wild bulls there.. When Philip II of Macedon invaded Thessaly in 353 BC. -VS. , he installed democratic governments there under the protection of Macedonian garrisons responsible for maintaining order. He created four great districts at the head of which he placed tetrarchs, Simos being that of the district of Larissa. This organization was to last only eight years because, in 344 BC. -VS. , Philip II invades Thessaly again, drives out Simos and incorporates the whole province into the kingdom of Macedonia, ending the coinage. For the coinage of Larissa, there are three studies: the article by F. Hermann, Die Silbermünzen von Larissa in Thessalien, ZfN. 35 (1925), the article by T. R. Martin, The Chronology of the fourth century B. VS. , Facing Head Silver Coinage of Larissa, MN. 28, 1983 and the article by C. Lorber, The Early Facing Head Drachms of Thessalian Larissa, in Florilegium Numismaticum, Studia in Honorem U. Westermark, Stockholm 1992.

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