The Thessalian League coinage of this period was struck under the authority of magistrates whose names rotated annually, making the identification of specific magistrate combinations — like Menedemos paired with Pherekrates Neoteros — critical for die-study sequencing. The truncated third name, recoverable only from die-linked specimens, has kept BCD 1380 a point of ongoing specialist correspondence since the collection's publication.
The Thessalian League coinage of this period was struck under the authority of magistrates whose names rotated annually, making the identification of specific magistrate combinations — like Menedemos paired with Pherekrates Neoteros — critical for die-study sequencing. The truncated third name, recoverable only from die-linked specimens, has kept BCD 1380 a point of ongoing specialist correspondence since the collection's publication.