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Hemiobol
| Issuer | Larissa |
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| Year | 462 BC - 460 BC |
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| Value | Hemiobol (1⁄12) |
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| Reverse description | Bridled horse's head in right profile, rendered with strong archaic relief within a recessed incuse square. The bridle is clearly delineated, and the musculature of the neck and jaw are rendered with confident, stylized incision typical of early Thessalian mint work. The ethnic inscription ΛΑ, an abbreviation for Larissa, appears in the field to the left of the horse's head in early Greek characters. |
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| Mintage | ND (462 BC - 460 BC) |
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Larissa's coinage in this period was administered by the Aleuadae, the dominant aristocratic clan who maintained Persian sympathies well into the fifth century — a political alignment that made Thessalian silver circulate across an unusually wide geographic corridor during the Greco-Persian aftermath. The hemiobol denomination served fractional transaction needs in a region where livestock markets and grain exchange demanded small-denomination silver.