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Nomos 4

10 May 2011
Zunfthaus zur Saffran, Zürich
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Estimate: 250 CHF
Hammer Price:  1700 CHF
Lot 1266

THESSALY, Pharkadon. Circa 460-440 BC. Hemidrachm (Silver, 2.96 g 2). Thessalos striding right, his petasos hanging from a cord around his neck, holding a band in both his hands around the head of the forepart of a bull moving right. Rev. ΦΑ - R - ΚΑ (retrograde) Forepart of bridled horse to right, rein trailing; downwards across torso, trident; all within incuse square. McClean 4672 and pl. 175, 7. CNG MBS 57, 2001, 295 (same dies, but with spurious references). Rare. The earliest “bull-wrestler type” from Pharkadon. Darkly toned as found, a particularly nice example. Good very fine.


Ex Numismatica Wien 27 October 1972, 335 (AS 1800), and from the Hollschek Collection, Part 14, Dorotheum 244, 24 October 1961, 924.

Online bidding closes: 10 May 2011, 14:00:00 CEST Current Date & Time: 23 Apr 2024, 10:14:57 CEST Remaining Time: Closed Hammer Price:1700 CHF

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