Watch List notes:

MESSENIA. Messene. Julia Domna, Augusta, 193-217. Assarion (Bronze, 21 mm, 3.46 g, 5 h). IOYΛΙΑ ΔΟΜΝΑC Draped bust of Julia Domna to right. Rev. ΜΕCCΗ-ΝΙΩΝ Athena standing right, wielding spear in her right hand and holding shield in her left; in right field, monogram. Cf. BCD Peloponnesos 765.3(possibly struck from the same obverse die) and NCP P VII (but both with the monogram in the left field on the reverse. Extremely rare and possibly unpublished. With very clear types. Rough surfaces, otherwise, very fine.