Hemidrachm

Larissa's coinage in this period was controlled by the aristocratic Aleuadai family, whose political dominance over the Thessalian plain translated directly into minting authority. The city sat astride the main route between Macedonia and central Greece, and its silver circulated widely through that corridor during the Persian War aftermath, when regional coinages were proliferating across Thessaly to meet the demands of mercenary payment and inter-polis commerce.

BCD Thessaly I#1124 places this piece within a tightly sequenced die study — the BCD collection being the most rigorously catalogued Thessalian hoard corpus assembled in the modern era.