Hess-Divo
Auction 339 22 Oct 2020
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GREEK COINS. THESSALY.
PHARSALOS. Drachm, about 425-400 BC. AR 6.08 g. Head of Athena r., wearing crested Attic helmet adorned with Skylla raising her l. hand to shade her eyes; behind neck, artist signatures [TH - MI] in tiny letters. Rev. Φ - Α - Ρ - Σ Thessalian horseman on horse prancing r., wearing petasos, chlamys and short chiton, brandishing lagobolon with his raised r. hand; the horse wears a beaded necklace and has a B branded on its haunch; below the foot of the horseman, signature HT in tiny letters. BCD, Thessaly II, 642 (same dies); Lavva 174, 154c (this specimen).
Rare. Toned. Good very fine
Provenance: Auction Adolph Hess AG, Lucerne - Bank Leu & Co. AG, Zurich 36 (Lucerne 1968), 186.
PHARSALOS. Drachm, about 425-400 BC. AR 6.08 g. Head of Athena r., wearing crested Attic helmet adorned with Skylla raising her l. hand to shade her eyes; behind neck, artist signatures [TH - MI] in tiny letters. Rev. Φ - Α - Ρ - Σ Thessalian horseman on horse prancing r., wearing petasos, chlamys and short chiton, brandishing lagobolon with his raised r. hand; the horse wears a beaded necklace and has a B branded on its haunch; below the foot of the horseman, signature HT in tiny letters. BCD, Thessaly II, 642 (same dies); Lavva 174, 154c (this specimen).
Rare. Toned. Good very fine
Provenance: Auction Adolph Hess AG, Lucerne - Bank Leu & Co. AG, Zurich 36 (Lucerne 1968), 186.