Drachm

Features

Issuer	Pharsalos (Thessaly)
Type	Standard circulation coins
Years	425 BC - 350 BC
Value	Drachm (1)
Currency	Drachm
Composition	Silver
Weight	5.94 g
Shape	Round (irregular)
Technique	Hammered
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 171211
References	BCD Thessaly I# 1284 Nomos (publisher); 2011. Nomos Auction / Volume 4: The BCD Collection. Coins of Thessaly. Nomos, Zürich, Switzerland. , Lavva# 81-82 Stella Lavva; 2001. Die Münzprägung von Pharsalos = The Coinage of Pharsalos. Saarbrücker Druckerei und Verlag, Saarbrücken, Saarland, Germany. , SNG Lockett# 1604 Edward Stanley Gotch Robinson, Richard Cyril Lockett. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: Volume III - The Lockett Collection. Oxford University Press, London, United Kingdom (5 volumes). , SNG Ashmolean# 3920 Oxford University Press (publisher). Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: Volume V - Ashmolean Museum. Oxford University Press, London, United Kingdom (7 volumes). , BCD Thessaly II# 638 Classical Numismatic Group (publisher); 2012. Triton XV / Auction XV: The BCD Collection of the Coinage of Thessaly. Classical Numismatic Group, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States.

Obverse

Head of Athena to right, wearing crested Attic helmet with raised cheek pieces. Legend behind neck.

Script: Greek

Lettering:
ΤΗ
ΙΠ

Engraver: Telephantos (Τηλέφαντος)

Reverse

Thessalian cavalryman riding horse prancing to right, wearing petasos, chlamys and chiton, and holding a lagobolon over his right shoulder

Scripts: Greek, Greek (retrograde)

Lettering:
Φ Α
Ρ Σ
TH

Engraver: Telephantos (Τηλέφαντος)

Mint

Pharsalus, Thessaly, Greece

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
ND (425 BC - 350 BC)								$ 14 000

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Past sales

Pictures	Sale	Date	Grade	Sold price
	Numismatica Ars Classica Auction 116 Lot 117	1 Oct 2019	XF	USD 12 668.89 (CHF 10 000.00) (+ buyer's premium)
© Numismatica Ars Classica NAC AG
	Nomos AG Auction 4: BCD Collection of Thessaly Lot 1284	10 May 2011	XF	USD 20 270.23 (CHF 16 000.00) (+ buyer's premium)
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