Rare Thessalian Countermark

417, Lot: 153. Estimate $100. Sold for $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THESSALY, Pharkadon. Circa 440-400 BC. AR Hemidrachm (14mm, 2.36 g, 12h). The hero Thessalos, with petasos around neck, restraining forepart of bull right by band held around its head / Φ-Α-Ρ-[Κ]-Α[Δ]-Ο (partially retrograde), forepart of horse right within incuse square; cm: KA. BCD Thessaly II 603; HGC 4, 292; for c/m: Lorber, “Thessalian Countermarks,” Travaux Le Rider, 49. Good Fine, toned, some porosity.