Savoca Coins
Online Auction 26 | Silver 14 Oct 2018
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Thessaly. Pharkadon circa 440 BC.
Fourrée Hemidrachm
15mm., 2,45g.
Thessalos, striding right and with his cloak and petasos over his shoulders, using both hands to hold a band around the head of the forepart of a bull rushing right / Φ-AΡ-[K]AΔ-O, forepart of bridled horse to left, the reins trailing, below horse to left, sandal.
good very fine
BCD -; BMC -; SNG Greece 6, 232.
See CNG, Triton XV, Lot 617: "... Pharkadon and Trikka were the main fake producing taurokathapsia cities and not so much Larissa, although the quantities of genuine coins produced there were vast. The explanation to this discrepancy is simple: the mint of Larissa was obviously much better organized and as a result better supervised too. There must have been controls there that made it very difficult to take dies away so that they could be used to strike fakes in a unofficial workshop; also, striking fakes within the official mint premises must again have been very difficult due to constant supervision of the workers...".
Fourrée Hemidrachm
15mm., 2,45g.
Thessalos, striding right and with his cloak and petasos over his shoulders, using both hands to hold a band around the head of the forepart of a bull rushing right / Φ-AΡ-[K]AΔ-O, forepart of bridled horse to left, the reins trailing, below horse to left, sandal.
good very fine
BCD -; BMC -; SNG Greece 6, 232.
See CNG, Triton XV, Lot 617: "... Pharkadon and Trikka were the main fake producing taurokathapsia cities and not so much Larissa, although the quantities of genuine coins produced there were vast. The explanation to this discrepancy is simple: the mint of Larissa was obviously much better organized and as a result better supervised too. There must have been controls there that made it very difficult to take dies away so that they could be used to strike fakes in a unofficial workshop; also, striking fakes within the official mint premises must again have been very difficult due to constant supervision of the workers...".