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Obol
| Issuer | Pharkadon |
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| Year | 440 BC - 400 BC |
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| Weight | 0.84 g |
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| Reverse description | Standing figure of Athena facing, helmeted and clad in a long chiton, holding a spear upright in her right hand and a large shield at her left side. The inscription ΦΑΡΚΑΔΟΝΙΟΝ is distributed around the figure in the field, reading in segments to the left and right of the deity. The rendering is archaic in style, with the goddess depicted frontally in a stiff, hieratic pose characteristic of fifth-century Thessalian coinage. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΦΑΡΚΑΔΟΝΙΟΝ |
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Pharkadon was a minor Thessalian polis in the Hestiaeotis region, and its autonomous coinage is sparse enough that individual dies can often be traced across the surviving corpus. The BCD collection reference here places this piece within a tightly documented sequence — BCD Thessaly I remains the authoritative die study for this series, and pieces appearing in both BCD and SNG Copenhagen are among the better-pedigreed survivors from this mint.
Thessalian fractional silver of this period circulated within a regional economy dominated by the powerful Thessalian League cities; Pharkadon's independent issues likely predate its absorption into that broader political orbit.