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Pharsalos, Thessaly Drachm
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AR Drachm
Size: 17 - 20 mm, Weight: 6.21 grams, Die axis: 6h
Pharsalos, Thessaly
Late fifth, early fourth century BCE
Obverse: Head of Athena to right, wearing crested Attic helmet decorated with leaping Sphinx, TΘ behind.
Reverse: Thessalian cavalryman wearing petasos, chlamys and short chiton, brandishing lagobolon, riding horse prancing to right, ΦAPΣ around, T below hind hoof.
References: BCD Thessaly II 645 (same dies)
Notes:
-The T has been interpreted as the initial of the die engraver Telephantos.
Ex CNG eAuction 392 (2017), lot 165 (part of), Ex BCD Collection
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