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Hemidrachm of Pharkadon with youth restraining bull
Greek
Classical Period
465–447 B.C.
Mint: Thessaly, Pharkadon
Medium/Technique
Silver
Dimensions
Diameter: 17 mm. Weight: 2.78 gm.
Credit Line
Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number04.774
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CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsNumismatics – Coins
Catalogue Raisonné
Brett, Greek Coins (MFA), no. 0918.
DescriptionObverse: Youth with petasos and chlamys to right checking by the horns a bull, (only the forepart shown).
Beaded border.
Reverse: In incuse square the forepart of a prancing horse, to right.
Inscription in Greek around.
Beaded border.
Reverse: In incuse square the forepart of a prancing horse, to right.
Inscription in Greek around.
ProvenanceBy date unknown: Moore Collection; 1889: Moore Sale (Cat. Sotheby, no. 259, according to Regling and Brett); by date unknown: Canon Greenwell Collection; July 1902: acquired from Canon Greenwell Collection by Edward Perry Warren (Regling, Die Griechischen Münzen der Sammlung Warren, no. 716); September 1904: purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren