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Æ19 - Augustus ΜΕΓΑΛΟΚΛΗΣ ΣΩΣΑΝΔΡΟΥ
| Issuer | Koinon of Thessaly (Achaea) |
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| Year | 27 BC - 14 AD |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | Athena Itonia, the principal deity of the Thessalian Koinon, depicted standing to the right in a dynamic martial pose, brandishing a spear overhead with her right hand and holding a shield in her left. The figure is rendered in the conventional Hellenistic style associated with this cult image. The Greek legend ΜΕΓΑΛΟΚΛΗΣ ΣΩΣΑΝΔΡΟΥ, naming the local magistrate Megalocles son of Sosandros, is inscribed in the field, and a monogram appears as an additional mint or magistrate symbol. |
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The Koinon of Thessaly resumed autonomous bronze coinage under Augustus after decades of disruption — first from the Roman civil wars, then from the wholesale reorganization of Greek provincial administration. The magistrate name ΜΕΓΑΛΟΚΛΗΣ ΣΩΣΑΝΔΡΟΥ (Megalokles, son of Sosandros) identifies a local official granted eponymous authority over the issue, a distinctly Greek administrative habit that Rome left largely undisturbed in Thessaly.
The Koinon's coinage from this period is thinly documented, and die studies remain incomplete.