427, Lot: 165. Estimate $75. Sold for $45. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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THESSALY, Pharsalos. 4th-3rd centuries BC. Æ Trichalkon (20mm, 6.81 g, 2h). Helmeted head of Athena facing slightly left; spear to left, shield to right / [ΦΑΡ]-ΣAΛIΩ-N, Thessalian cavalryman, holding flail, on horse rearing right; to left, footman advancing right, holding mace. Lavva 343 (V176/R247); cf. Rogers 505; BCD Thessaly II 674.7 (same obv. die); HGC 4, 649. VF, dark green patina, small flan flaw at edge on reverse.
From the BCD Collection.