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| Issuer | Thessalian League |
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| Year | 196 BC - 146 BC |
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| Value | Tetartemorion (1⁄24) |
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| Obverse description | Laureate head of Apollo facing right, rendered in low relief in the standard Hellenistic style characteristic of Thessalian League coinage. The portrait displays the god's idealized facial features with a fillet or laurel wreath encircling the hair. The flan is irregular and the strike somewhat worn, consistent with a small circulating bronze denomination of the period. No legible legend appears on the obverse. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΘΕΣΣΑ ΛΩΝ |
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The Thessalian League was reconstituted as a functioning political body by Rome following the defeat of Philip V at Cynoscephalae in 197 BC — the Romans found a compliant federal structure more useful than a vacuum. This bronze coinage served that reconstituted league through its entire existence, ending abruptly when Rome dissolved the koinon following the Achaean War in 146 BC, the same year Corinth was razed.