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Trihemiobol
| Issuer | Phalanna |
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| Year | 360 BC - 340 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | A bridled horse trotting to the right, depicted with careful attention to musculature and movement, its mane upright and tail extended. The animal is shown in a lively three-quarter stance typical of Thessalian coinage of this period. The ethnic legend of the Phalannaioi is distributed around the field in Greek letters, broken into segments: ΦΑΛ to the upper left, ΑΝ to the upper right, ΝΑ to the lower right, and ΙΩΝ along the lower exergual area. |
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| Mintage | ND (360 BC - 340 BC) |
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Phalanna was a minor Thessalian city whose coinage output was limited even by regional standards — the trihemiobol denomination itself, worth one and a half obols, served the granular day-to-day transactions that larger Thessalian issues like those of Larissa couldn't efficiently handle. The city sat in the Perrhaebian territory of northern Thessaly, a zone repeatedly contested between Macedonian influence and local Thessalian leagues throughout the mid-fourth century, precisely the window this coin occupies.
The BCD collection reference here is significant: Luc Mildenberg's Thessalian holdings, later catalogued as BCD Thessaly, established the die-linkage framework still used to sequence Phalanna's tiny output.