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Larissa, Thessaly, Greece, 3rd Century B.C.
The constitution of Larissa was democratic, which explains why it sided with Athens in the Peloponnesian War. The area of Larissa celebrated a festival similar to the Roman Saturnalia, and at which slaves were waited on by their masters. It was taken by the Thebans and afterward by the Macedonian kings, and Demetrius Poliorcetes gained possession of it about 302 B.C.GB87126. Bronze dichalkon, cf. BCD Thessaly II 393.4 (similar monogram); Rogers 279 ff.; SNG Cop 141; BMC Thessaly p. 32, 85; HGC 4 530 (various controls/ethnic arrangements), gVF, attractive well struck head of Larissa, dark patina, round flan, tight reverse crowding off legend (as typical for the type), Larissa mint, weight 5.222g, maximum diameter 18.5mm, die axis 180o, 3rd century B.C.; obverse head of nymph Larissa facing slightly left, wreathed with grain, wearing necklace; reverse ΛA-P-IΣ,AIΩN (starting clockwise upper left, last five letters counterclockwise below), cavalryman on horse prancing right, wearing cuirass and Boiotian helmet, reins in left hand, crouched lance in right hand, monogram (control) below horse; ex BCD with his round tag noting, "Thess. mid 90’s, SFr. 90.-"; SOLD
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