Hemidrachm

Features

Issuer	Pharkadon (Thessaly)
Type	Standard circulation coins
Years	460 BC - 440 BC
Value	Hemidrachm (½)
Currency	Drachm
Composition	Silver
Weight	2.96 g
Shape	Round (irregular)
Technique	Hammered, Incuse
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 171184
References	BCD Thessaly I# 1266 Nomos (publisher); 2011. Nomos Auction / Volume 4: The BCD Collection. Coins of Thessaly. Nomos, Zürich, Switzerland. , McClean# 4672 Sidney W. Grose. Fitzwilliam Museum. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom (3 volumes).

Obverse

Thessalos striding right, his petasos hanging from a cord around his neck, holding a band in both his hands around the head of the forepart of a bull moving right

Reverse

Forepart of bridled horse to right, rein trailing and downwards across torso, trident. Qll within incuse square

Script: Greek

Lettering: ΦΑ R ΚΑ

Mint

Pharcadon, Thessaly, Greece

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
ND (460 BC - 440 BC)

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