Æ32 - Nero ΣΤΡΑΤΗΓΟΥ ΛΑΟΥΧΟΥ

The Koinon of Thessaly — the federal league of Thessalian cities — retained the right to strike bronze under Nero, a privilege that depended entirely on Rome's continued goodwill toward provincial civic institutions. The magistrate name ΛΑΟΥΧΟΥ (Laouchos) appearing here identifies a local strategos, the chief executive officer of the Koinon, whose tenure likely fell within Nero's early reign before the deteriorating political climate of the mid-60s AD made such civic displays increasingly fraught.

Thessalian federal bronzes of this period are consistently underrepresented in major collections relative to comparable provincial issues from Asia Minor.