Savoca Coins
Online Auction 31 | Silver 10 Mar 2019
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Messenia. Thuria. Septimius Severus AD 193-211. Struck circa AD 198-205
Assarion Æ
23 mm., 5,02 g.
Illegible inscription. Laureate head right / [Θ]OVΡIA-[TΩN], Zeus standing facing, head to left, extending right hand (or holding eagle) and holding scepter with left hand, Λ-A across fields.
nearly very fine
Cf. BCD Peloponnesos 830.2 (Zeus extending right arm); cf. CNG, E-Auction 369, Lot 391 (Zeus holding eagle).
Ex BCD Collection.
The letters Λ-Α or reverse prove that in the time of Severus and his family Thuria formed part of Laconia.
Assarion Æ
23 mm., 5,02 g.
Illegible inscription. Laureate head right / [Θ]OVΡIA-[TΩN], Zeus standing facing, head to left, extending right hand (or holding eagle) and holding scepter with left hand, Λ-A across fields.
nearly very fine
Cf. BCD Peloponnesos 830.2 (Zeus extending right arm); cf. CNG, E-Auction 369, Lot 391 (Zeus holding eagle).
Ex BCD Collection.
The letters Λ-Α or reverse prove that in the time of Severus and his family Thuria formed part of Laconia.