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Drachm
| Issuer | Larissa |
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| Year | 420 BC - 400 BC |
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| Value | Drachm (1) |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Larissa's drachms of this period were struck at a moment when the city was consolidating dominance over the Thessalian plain, its aristocratic tagos families — particularly the Aleuadae — controlling both the mint and the grain surplus that made Thessaly one of the wealthiest regions in the Greek world. The horse-breeding culture of the Thessalian nobility was no accident of geography; it underwrote the city's military and political weight across the late fifth century.
The BCD collection reference places this piece within one of the most rigorously sequenced die studies ever conducted on Thessalian coinage. BCD Thessaly I remains the authoritative reclassification that superseded earlier BMC and Copenhagen attributions for this series.