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Tetrachalkon
| Issuer | Pharsalos |
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| Year | 425 BC - 375 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Reverse description | Thessalian horseman advancing to the right at full gallop, the rider brandishing a javelin overhead in a dynamic martial pose. The horse is rendered with vigorous musculature and extended legs characteristic of Thessalian equestrian coinage. A small floral or leaf symbol appears before the horse. The ethnic inscription ΦΑΡ, identifying the city of Pharsalos, is placed in the lower portion of the field beneath the horse. |
| Reverse script | Greek |
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Pharsalos was the dominant polis of Thessaly through much of the fifth and fourth centuries, its aristocratic families — particularly the Skopadai — maintaining influence through cavalry wealth and political maneuvering between Athens, Sparta, and eventually Macedon. Bronze fractional coinage of this type circulated locally during a period when the city repeatedly found itself at the center of interstate conflicts, including Jason of Pherai's forcible consolidation of Thessalian power in the 370s. The Rogers variant designation suggests a die combination not fully catalogued in the main sequence.