Ex Pozzi Collection

Triton XXI, Lot: 409. Estimate $2000. Sold for $11000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THESSALY, Pharkadon. Circa 440-400 BC. AR Hemidrachm (15.5mm, 2.82 g, 10h). Hero (Thessalos?), petasos and cloak tied at neck, holding band around head of forepart of bull right / Forepart of horse right; Φ-Α-Ρ-Κ (retrograde) around; all within incuse square. BCD Thessaly II 604 (same rev. die); HGC 4, 292; Pozzi 1238 (this coin). EF, toned, a hint of granularity, a couple small old marks under tone on reverse.

From the H.W. Collection. Ex Auctiones AG 7 (7 June 1977), lot 163 (realized CHF 5600); Prof. Samuel-Jean Pozzi Collection (Naville I, 14 March 1921), lot 1238.