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Hemiobol
| Issuer | Larissa |
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| Year | 420 BC - 400 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Reverse description | Head and neck of a bridled horse facing right, depicted in profile within a shallow incuse square. The letters Λ, Α, Ρ (retrograde), and Ι are distributed around the horse's head, forming the ethnic abbreviation ΛΑΡΙ for Larissa. The incuse square, a hallmark of early Greek coinage technique, frames the design with clean, recessed borders. |
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| Mint | Larissa, Thessaly |
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Larissa's late fifth-century fractional silver reflects the city's position as the dominant polis of Thessaly during a period when the Aleuadae family controlled its political apparatus. These tiny fractions served real commercial needs in a region whose economy ran heavily on horse-breeding and grain — transactions that required denominations well below the obol.
The HGC 4, 513 attribution places this among a tightly clustered group with limited die variety documentation. BCD Thessaly II 145 reflects the Colin Pitchfork collection's systematic die-linking work, still the most rigorous analysis of Larissaean fractions published.