Watch List notes:

THESSALY, Pharsalos. Late 5th-mid 4th century BC. AR Drachm (18mm, 6.10 g, 8h). Head of Athena right, wearing crested Attic helmet, decorated with sphinx leaping right, and single-pendant earring; TΘ behind neck guard / Warrior, wearing petasos and holding mace over shoulder in right hand, on horseback right; small T on ground line between hind feet, Φ-A-P-[Σ] (partially retrograde) clockwise around from upper left; all within incuse square. Lavva 144c corr. (V68/R84 – this coin); BCD Thessaly II 645 corr.; Jameson 1103 = Rhousopoulos 1419 corr.; McClean 4681 corr. (all from the same dies, none noting small T on rev.). EF, lightly toned, slight die shift on reverse, overstruck on uncertain type (portions visible on horse). Very rare.


From the RAJ Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group XXVI (11 June 1993), lot 278; Classical Numismatic Auctions XI (3 May 1990), lot 55; Historical Coin Review XIV/6 (November/December 1989), no. 30.