311, Lot: 263. Estimate $100. Sold for $65. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THESSALY, Phalanna. Late 4th century BC. Æ Dichalkon (17mm, 4.35 g, 1h). Head of Zeus Peloris right; [ΠE]ΛO[PIΣ] below / Φ–A–ΛA, head of nymph right, with hair in sakkos. Rogers 455 (same obv. die as fig. 248); BCD Thessaly II 588.1 (same obv. die). Near VF, brown patina, light roughness.

From the same obv. die as the following lot.

A note from BCD from the Triton sale: The engraved types on the dies of this coin are clearly larger than the types of the coins that follow. This is the reason it has been called a Dichalkon whereas the balance of the Zeus Peloris types are listed as Chalkoi. The writer realizes that this is not a totally satisfactory approach to the metrology of these types as the difference in size between the heads on the above coin and the smaller heads that follow is not so clear cut. ASW (see Nomos 4, lots 1259 to 1261) adopted the “reverse subject” solution, calling Dichalka the coins having as a reverse subject the nymph’s head and Chalkoi the coins with the nymph’s figure seated. As we shall see further down this does not solve the problem as there are coins with small heads on both obverse and reverse that ASW would call Dichalka when they obviously belong to the lesser denomination.