Savoca Coins
Online Auction 31 | Silver 10 Mar 2019
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Messenia. Thuria. Caracalla AD 198-217.
Assarion Æ
22 mm., 4,51 g.
AV K M A[...], laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind / ΘOV-PI-[ATΩN], female figure standing facing, head to left, holding uncertain object in right hand and scepter in left, Λ-A across fields.
nearly very fine
Cf. BCD Peloponnesos 834.3 (Athena holding spear and patera) & 834.4 (Athena holding spear and Nike).
Ex BCD Collection.
The letters Λ-A on reverse prove that in the time of Severus and his family Thuria formed part of Laconia.
Assarion Æ
22 mm., 4,51 g.
AV K M A[...], laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind / ΘOV-PI-[ATΩN], female figure standing facing, head to left, holding uncertain object in right hand and scepter in left, Λ-A across fields.
nearly very fine
Cf. BCD Peloponnesos 834.3 (Athena holding spear and patera) & 834.4 (Athena holding spear and Nike).
Ex BCD Collection.
The letters Λ-A on reverse prove that in the time of Severus and his family Thuria formed part of Laconia.