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Trichalkon
| Issuer | Phakion |
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| Year | 300 BC - 200 BC |
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| Weight | 6.14 g |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of a local nymph in right profile, her hair bound with a wreath and flowing in loose locks behind the neck. She wears a triple-pendant earring visible at the ear. The portrait is rendered in the naturalistic Hellenistic style characteristic of Thessalian civic bronzes, with fine facial features and a beaded border encircling the field. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΦΑΚΙΑΣΤΩΝ |
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Phakion was a minor Thessalian community whose independent bronze coinage is attested almost exclusively through a handful of surviving specimens — this type among them. The BCD collection, assembled by the collector known only by those initials, remains the primary reference corpus for precisely these obscure Thessalian issues, and Rogers 444 had little more than a few examples to work from when cataloging it in 1932.