Æ23 - Nero ΣΤΡΑΤΗΓΟΥ ΛΑΟΥΧΟΥ

The Koinon of Thessaly continued striking bronze civic coinage well into the Neronian period, operating under the looser provincial arrangements Rome maintained in Achaea. The magistrate name ΛΑΟΥΧΟΥ — a Latinized Greek rendering likely corresponding to a local strategos — places this coin within a sequence of issues where Thessalian civic identity persisted formally even as Roman imperial authority dominated. Magistrate-named provincials of this type are useful for reconstructing local administrative succession, though the Thessalian series remains incompletely die-linked in the literature.