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Auction: 24125 - Spink Numismatic e-Circular 39: Ancient Coins, featuring the Little Busby Hoard of Roman Denarii - e-Auction
Lot: 1162

Thessaly, Pharsalos, AR Drachm, struck c. 400-370 BC, head of Athena right, wearing crested helmet ornamented with serpent, a bird's wing attached above the ear, rev. PH-A-R-S, Thessalian horseman right, wearing kausia and chlamys, holding a sceptre, 5.97g (HGC 4, 625 (this obverse); BCD Thessaly I, 1287 (same); BCD Thessaly II 641 (same)), struck off-centre, as typical for type, otherwise good very fine to extremely fine

Provenance

The "Veitchii" Collection of Ancient Coins

Purchased from Spink, c. 1909 (with ticket)

Frank Sherman Benson, Sotheby's, 2 March 1909, lot 480

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Sold for
£2,400

Starting price
£480