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Auction XXV  22-23 Sep 2022
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Lot 174

Estimate: 4000 GBP
Price realized: 4800 GBP
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Thessaly, Pharsalos AR Drachm. Late 5th-mid 4th century BC. Dies signed by the engravers Telephantos and Ip-. Head of Athena to right, wearing crested Attic helmet with raised cheek guards, helmet ornamented with two palmettes; T and IΠ behind / Thessalian cavalryman riding horse prancing to right, wearing petasos, chlamys and chiton, and holding a lagobolon over his left shoulder; ΦΑΡΣ around, ΤΗ below exergual line. Lavva 87c (this coin); BCD Thessaly I -; BCD Thessaly II -. 6.09g, 20mm, 3h.

Near Mint State. Very Rare; this variety not represented in the BCD collection.

This coin published in S. Lavva, Die Münzprägung von Pharsalos. Saarbrücker Studien zur Archäologie und Geschichte 14 (Saarbrück, 2001);
Ex Dr. Guy Sylvain Paul Bastin Collection;
Ex Gerhard Hirsch Nachfolger, Auction 178, 12 May 1993;
Ex Gerhard Hirsch Nachfolger, Auction 165, 14 February 1990, lot 230.
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