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Hemidrachm
| Issuer | Trikka |
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| Year | 440 BC - 400 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Obverse description | Thessalos, depicted as a youthful male figure wearing a broad-brimmed petasos and a chlamys fastened at the neck, faces right in the act of restraining a bull. He grasps a fillet or band around the head of the forepart of a bull, which also faces right. The composition captures the dynamic tension of the bull-taming scene, rendered in the bold, vigorous style characteristic of Thessalian coinage of the fifth century BC. |
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| Reverse description | The forepart of a bridled horse advances to the right, depicted with carefully incised musculature in the Archaic-Classical transitional style. The ethnic inscription is distributed around the horse within a deeply recessed incuse square, which is characteristic of early Greek hammered coinage. The overall composition is compact and well-centred within the confines of the incuse field. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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