Here is a new Greek AE Dichalkon I picked up from @arnoldoe. I loved the portrait & the price was right. Thessaly, Larissa (360 - 325 B.C.) Æ Dichalkon O: Head of Larissa facing slightly left, wearing ampyx; grain ears in hair. R: Horseman riding right, holding lance; 5.84g 19mm Rogers 284; BCD Thessaly II 393; HGC 4, 530
Nice! I have yet to get a bronze but I have a couple in silver: THESSALY, Larissa. Circa 450/40-420 BC. AR Drachm, 20mm, 5.9g, 6h. Obv.: The hero Thessalos, with petasos and chlamys hanging around neck, restraining bull left by band held around its head; plant to left and below; TO in exergue. Rev.: ΛΑ / P / IΣA; Bridled horse rearing right within incuse square. Thessaly, Larissa AR Drachm, 6.0g, 20mm, 12h; c. 380-365 BC. Obv.: Head of the nymph Larissa facing slightly right, wearing ampyx, earring, and necklace. Rev.: [ΛAPI]-ΣAIΩN, horse grazing right.
Similar There is also a smaller AE12 bronze but the obverse style suffers. While it lacks many finer points, I have always been fond of the style on my fourree drachm. Unfortunately she fell down and scraped her nose.
Nice new pickup...I have a similar bronze from Larissa. Thessaly, Larissa, 3rd century BC. AE Dichalkon (20mm, 4.82g). Head of the nymph Larissa facing slightly left, wearing ampyx / Horseman advancing right, holding spear; E below.
Congratulations @Mat. THESSALY, LARISSA AE 21 OBVERSE: Head of the nymph Larissa facing slightly left REVERSE: ΛAΡI-Σ-AIΩN (retrograde) around horse prancing right; E above, grain ear below. Struck at Larissa 400-344 BC 6.75g, 18mm SNG Cop 138v THESSALY, LARISSA AR Trihemiobol OBVERSE: Head of nymph Larissa three-quarter facing left in necklace, hair confined by fillet & floating loosely, with ampyx in front REVERSE: ΛAPI (Laris) above, horse feeding right. Struck at Larissa 395-344 BC .75g, 10mm SNG Cop 135 THESSALY, LARISSA AR Trihemiobol OBVERSE: Head of the nymph Larissa right, wearing pendant earring REVERSE: ΛAPI above, ΠΛE in exergue, horse right, about to roll Struck at Larissa 370-360 BC 1.4g, 12mm BCD Thessaly II 274; Hoover, Volume 4 under "trihemiobols (c. 1.5g)" on page 146, number 474. R2 = Very Rare...3-24 extant examples
Nice one, Mat. I do like these Thessalian coins. Three different silver denominations, a drachm, hemidrachm, and obol: THESSALY, Larissa AR Drachm. 5.86g, 19.3mm. THESSALY, Larissa, circa 380-365 BC. BCD Thessaly II 295; HGC 4, 446. O: Head of the nymph Larissa facing slightly left, with hair in circlet with grain ears above. R: API/ΣAIΩN, mare and her foal standing right. THESSALY, Larissa AR Hemidrachm. 2.96g, 17.3mm. THESSALY, Larissa, circa 450-430 BC. Lorber, Thessalian, Series 4, 18c (O10/R9) = CH 9, 77, inv. D/E-2-12 (this coin); BCD Thessaly I –; cf. BCD Thessaly II 178; HGC 4, 459 var. (horse left). O: Thessalos standing left, holding band across horns of forepart of bull leaping left; TO below. R: Λ-Α-P-Ι, forepart of bridled horse right within incuse square. Ex BCD Collection; ex Thessaly hoard, circa 1996 (CH 9, 77, inv. D/E-2-12) THESSALY, Larissa AR Obol. 0.95g, 11.4mm. THESSALY, Larissa, circa mid to late 5th century. BCD I -; BCD II -; CNG EAuction 292, 5 December 2012, 38 (same obverse die?). O: Horse to right; above, crescent to right; below, dolphin to right. R: Λ - A, The nymph Larissa striding to left, bouncing a ball off the ground with her right hand.
Nice Bronze Horse, @Mat . Great dark toning, and the Horseman on the reverse has great detail. Philip II had a lot of influence over Thessaly at that time. The design is similar to some of his AEs. I only have one coin from Larissa: LARISSA Thessaly Larissa 344-337 BCE AR Obol 0.68g Nymph Larissa Horse Grazing SNG Cop 1
