Sale: CNG 76, Lot: 401. Estimate $150.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 12 September 2007.  Sold For $303. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THESSALY, Phakion. 3rd century BC. Æ 17mm (3.89 g, 11h). Wreathed head of nymph right, wearing earring / Horseman, raising hand, riding right; grain ear between horse’s rear legs. Papaevangelou group II, 19 (O8/R16); Rogers 444 (this coin cited); SNG Copenhagen -. VF, green patina, rough obverse, flat strike in center of reverse. Very rare, Papaevangelou located only 42 examples of all coins of Phakion.

From the Christopher Morcom Collection.