Triton XVI, Lot: 356. Estimate $300. Sold for $550. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THESSALY, Pharkadon. Circa 440-400 BC. AR Hemidrachm (16mm, 2.88 g, 3h). Thessalos, nude but for petasos and cloak tied at neck, holding band across horns of forepart of bull right / Forepart of horse right; Φ-A-P-KA-ΔO clockwise around from upper left; all within incuse square. BCD Thessaly II 603 var. (arrangement of legend). VF, toned, some minor deposits, light cleaning marks under tone. Well centered on a broad flan.

From the BCD Collection. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 5 (25 February 1992), lot 128.