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Drachm - Hegesandros
| Issuer | Magnetes |
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| Year | 47 BC - 44 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Artemis, draped, seated left upon the prow of a galley, holding a bow in her extended right hand. The aplustre of the ship's prow is rendered in detail behind the goddess, and the hull of the vessel is depicted with a row of oar-ports below. The ethnic legend ΜΑΓΝΗ ΤΩΝ is inscribed to the left and above, with the magistrate's name ΗΓΗΣΑΝΔΡΟ disposed along the lower field and exergue, identifying the issuing authority. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Magnetes were a Thessalian tribal league whose coinage authority survived well into the Roman provincial period, issuing silver well after most neighboring regions had abandoned it in favor of bronze. This drachm falls squarely in the years of Caesar's dictatorship and the civil wars that followed his assassination — turbulent enough that a regional magistrate coinage from northern Thessaly would have been navigating serious monetary disruption. Hegesandros served as the issuing magistrate, his name appearing on the coin as the responsible authority under league governance.