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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;stevex6, post: 2580665, member: 44183&quot;]<span style="color: #0000ff">Awesome participation!! </span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">Wow, thanks for diggin&#039; deep, gang (great coins)</span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">Ummm, before I unload generic Horse and Thessaly winners, I thought I&#039;d try to nail a couple of specific winners ... </span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">=&gt; umm, so here are two more of my Thessaly Larissa examples ... </span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><b><span style="color: #ff0000">THESSALY, Larissa, AR Obol </span></b></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Circa 460-440 BC</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Diameter: 12 mm</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Weight: 0.90 grams</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Obverse: Horse advancing right; above, head of lion right</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Reverse: Λ [Α] RI around from upper left, Larissa standing right, balancing hydria on raised knee; to left, lion’s head fountain right, from which water pours forth; all within incuse square</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Reference: BCD Thessaly II 358.1 (same dies)</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Other: 9h … VF</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">From the BCD Collection</span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">[ATTACH=full]560098[/ATTACH] </span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><b><span style="color: #ff0000">THESSALY, Larissa, Æ Tetrachalkon </span></b></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Circa 356-337 BC</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Diameter: 19 mm</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Weight: 8.60 grams</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Obverse: Head of the nymph Larissa facing slightly left</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Reverse: ΛAPI Σ/AIΩN around from upper left (N retrograde), bridled horse trotting right; E above; below, grain ear upward to left</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Reference: Rogers 273; BCD Thessaly II 387.8; HGC 4, 517</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Other: 5h … Near EF, dark green patina</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">From the BCD Collection</span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">[ATTACH=full]560099[/ATTACH] </span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">Man, ancients coins rock, eh?</span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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