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Nomos 37

Zurich, 16 November 2025, 14:00 CET

Zunfthaus zur Saffran, Limmatquai 54, 8001 Zurich

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Unusually elegant fraction from Larissa!

Estimate: 2500 CHF
Hammer Price:  3000 CHF
Lot 94

THESSALY. Larissa. Early 4th Century BC. Trihemiobol (Silver, 16 mm, 1.61 g, 9 h). Small, round shield with the device of a bull's hoof to right within a dotted circle; all within a circle of dots. Rev. Λ-API (retrograde) Laureate and draped bust Asklepios to right, bearded and with long hair, before him, snake coiling right. BCD Thessaly I 1120 and II 169 var. (both struck from the same dies, albeit different from the ones here). Traité II, 4, 690 and pl. CCXCVII, 23-24. A wonderful piece, very rare, toned and with a sensitive 'portrait' of Asklepios. Struck on a curiously oblong flan, otherwise, good very fine.

From an American collection, ex Triton XIV, 4 January 2011, 105.

Online bidding closes: 16 Nov 2025, 09:00:00 CET Current Date & Time: 10 Mar 2026, 00:59:59 CET Remaining Time: Closed Hammer Price:3000 CHF
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