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Drachm
| Issuer | Larissa |
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| Year | 380 BC - 365 BC |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Reverse lettering | ΛΑΡΙΣΑΙΩΝ |
| Edge | Plain |
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Larissa's drachms of this period were struck at a moment when the city was navigating the aggressive expansion of the Thessalian League under the Aleuadae, the aristocratic clan that dominated Larissaean politics. The city maintained its own mint as a mark of civic autonomy even as factional conflict between the Aleuadae and rival families repeatedly destabilized local governance — at points inviting Macedonian interference that would eventually prove permanent.
BCD 1152 is a well-documented specimen from the most artistically ambitious phase of Larissaean coinage, when local die-cutters were producing work competitive with the finest contemporary Greek minting anywhere in the Aegean world.