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Drachm - Nikokrates, Philoxenides and Petraios

Issuer Thessalian League
Year 50 BC - 40 BC
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Weight 2.88 g
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Obverse script Greek
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Edge Plain
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The Thessalian League's late federal coinage was produced under a rotating magistracy system, with three officials authorizing each issue — here Nikokrates, Philoxenides, and Petraios. By this decade, Thessaly had been a Roman province for roughly a century, yet the League retained the privilege of striking silver, an autonomy Rome extended selectively and revoked without ceremony when it suited them.

The BCD reference traces to the collection of a single Belgian collector whose systematic acquisition of Thessalian material became the defining scholarly benchmark for the series.