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Auction XXV  22-23 Sep 2022
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Lot 175

Estimate: 2500 GBP
Price realized: 3200 GBP
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Thessaly, Pharsalos AR Drachm. Late 5th-mid 4th century BC. Dies signed by the engraver Telephantos. Head of Athena to right, wearing crested Attic helmet with raised cheek guards, helmet ornamented with two palmettes; TH behind / Thessalian cavalryman riding horse prancing to right, wearing petasos, chlamys and chiton, and holding a lagobolon over his left shoulder; ΦA[P]Σ around (partly retrograde). Cf. Lavva 98 (V-/R56); BCD Thessaly I -; BCD Thessaly II -. 5.85g, 19mm, 7h.

Extremely Fine; bright, lustrous metal. Extremely Rare; an apparently unpublished obverse die.

From the Ulisses Vaz Pardal Collection.
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