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| Issuer | Larissa Phrikonis |
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| Year | 400 BC - 300 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Obverse description | Facing head of a nymph, slightly turned to the right, adorned with a wreath of leaves and flowing hair rendered in loose, naturalistic curls framing the face. The portraiture is executed in the archaic-to-classical Greek style characteristic of Thessalian coinage, with the horns of a water deity subtly indicated above the temples. The face occupies the full field of the flan. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΛΑ |
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Larissa Phrikonis was a small Thessalian city whose civic coinage is poorly documented and rarely surfaces in trade. The attribution to this specific polis — rather than the better-known Larissa on the Peneios — rests on subtle epigraphic distinctions in the ethnic legend, a distinction that generated genuine scholarly dispute well into the twentieth century.