Thessaly, Pharsalos Hemidrachm Ca. 440-344 BC (No reserve price)

Thessaly, Pharsalos.
Ca. 440-344 BC.
Hemidrachm (Silver, 15 mm, 2.66 g).

Obv: Head of Athena right, wearing crested Attic helmet; letters or monogram behind the neck on some dies.
Rev: Φ-Α-Ρ-Σ (Pharsalos, variously arranged and partly retrograde). Bridled horse head right.

Reference: Hoover, Handbook of Greek Coinage 4, 634; Sear, Greek Coins and Their Values, 2192.

Pharsalos was one of the leading cities of the Thessalian plain, a land famed for its horses and cavalry, which the horse head on its silver recalls. Athena was its principal coin type. In the 370s BC Polydamas of Pharsalos yielded the city to Jason of Pherai, who briefly united Thessaly. Pharsalos then sided with Philip II of Macedon, who took control of Thessaly in the 350s-340s BC. In 48 BC the plain near the city saw Caesar defeat Pompey at the Battle of Pharsalus.

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