Hemidrachm

Features

Issuer Pharkadon (Thessaly)
Type Standard circulation coin
Years 460 BC - 440 BC
Value Hemidrachm (½)
Currency Drachm
Composition Silver
Weight 2.99 g
Shape Round (irregular)
Technique Hammered, incuse
Demonetized Yes
Number
N#
171185
References BCD Thessaly I# 1267,
Nomos (editor); 10 May 2011. Coins of Thessaly : The BCD Collection (Public auction 4). Nomos, Zürich, Switzerland.
SNG Copenhagen# 210
Niels Breitenstein, Willy Schwabacher; 1942. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: Royal Collection of Coins and Medals. Danish National Museum / Volume 1. Italy, Part 1 : Etruria - Campania. Einar Munksgaard, Copenhagen, Denmark.
And 43 more volumes.

Obverse

Thessalos striding right, his cloak and petasos hanging behind his neck, holding a band in both his hands around the head of the forepart of a bull moving right

Reverse

Forepart of a horse to right, within shallow incuse square

Script: Greek

Lettering: ΦΑΡΚΑΔΟΝΙ

Mint

Pharcadon, Thessaly, Greece

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Past sales

Pictures Sale Date Grade Sold price
Picture 1 of a sold Hemidrachm
Nomos AG
Auction 4: BCD Collection of Thessaly
Lot 1267
Internet Archive
10 May 2011 XF USD 4882.74
(CHF 4400.00)
(+ buyer's premium)
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