Message:

<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cmezner, post: 7892890, member: 87809&quot;]Very nice coins [USER=91461]@Ryro[/USER], good catch<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; </p><p>Horses were very important in Thessaly and appear on many coins of Larissa, sometimes with and sometimes without a rider. The rider could be Thessalos, the eponymous hero of the Thessalians, who is probably also on many of the earlier, federal coins of Thessaly.</p><p><br /></p><p>My very small Larissa, just a bit larger than [USER=51347]@Alegandron[/USER]&#039;s Obol. It was an impulse buy in 2018 - no one was bidding on it and I thought why not:</p><p><br /></p><p>AR Trihemiobol, Thessaly, Larissa, ca. 356 - 337 BC</p><p>12 mm, 0.945 g</p><p>BCD Thessaly II 327; HGC 4, 475; BMC 70; Sear 2128; SNG Copenhagen 134</p><p><br /></p><p>Ob.: Head of the nymph Larissa ¾ facing left, wearing ampyx and necklace</p><p>Rev.: (ΛAP) IΣ/(A)IΩN, Thessalian horseman, wearing petasos and chlamys, riding right, holding whip.</p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]1362109[/ATTACH]</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

Your name or email address:

Do you already have an account?

• No, create an account now.
• Yes, my password is:
• Forgot your password?

Stay logged in