Drachm

Features

Issuer	Pharsalos (Thessaly)
Type	Standard circulation coins
Years	425 BC - 375 BC
Value	Drachm (1)
Currency	Drachm
Composition	Silver
Weight	6.11 g
Shape	Round (irregular)
Technique	Hammered
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 171242
References	BCD Thessaly I# 1287 Nomos (publisher); 2011. Nomos Auction / Volume 4: The BCD Collection. Coins of Thessaly. Nomos, Zürich, Switzerland. , Lavva# 108 Stella Lavva; 2001. Die Münzprägung von Pharsalos = The Coinage of Pharsalos. Saarbrücker Druckerei und Verlag, Saarbrücken, Saarland, Germany.

Obverse

Head of Athena to right, wearing pendant earring and crested Attic helmet adorned with a tendril, an eagle’s wing behind which a snake coils to above Athena’s forehead, and a palmette on the visor. In tiny letters behind neck, Τ - Ι - Π.

Script: Greek

Lettering: Τ - Ι - Π

Engraver: Telephantos (Τηλέφαντος)

Reverse

Thessalian cavalryman riding horse prancing to left, wearing petasos, chlamys and chiton, and holding a lagobolon over his right shoulder and below, the letter Τ.

Script: Greek

Lettering:
Φ Α
Ρ Σ
Τ

Engraver: Telephantos (Τηλέφαντος)

Mint

Pharsalus, Thessaly, Greece

Comments

Lavva 108a (O52/R60).

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
ND (425 BC - 375 BC)

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