Triton XV, Lot: 603. Estimate $300. Sold for $600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THESSALY, Pharkadon. 3rd quarter of the 5th century BC. AR Hemidrachm (15mm, 3.03 g, 8h). Thessalos to r., naked but for chlamys billowing from his shoulders and his petasos hanging from a cord around his neck, holding a band with both hands around the forehead of a bull’s front half; border of dots / Φ-AP-K-AΔ-O from above l., r. circular, the second A and the Δ upside down, forepart of horse r. in incuse square. BMC p. 42, 1, pl. IX, 1. VF, lightly toned, some deposit leftovers (or die rust) in the fields.

Ex Giessener Münzhandlung 62 (20 April 1993) 161, hammer DM 600.