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Stater - Nikokrates, Philoxenides and Petraios
| Issuer | Thessalian League |
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| Year | 50 BC - 40 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Obverse description | Laureate head of Zeus facing right, adorned with an oak wreath in the Hellenistic tradition. The magistrate's name ΝΙΚΟΚΡΑΤΟΥΣ (Nikokrates) appears in the field behind the portrait. The effigy is rendered in fine Thessalian style, with detailed hair and beard characteristic of late Republican-era Greek civic coinage. |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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The Thessalian League's late magistrate series, to which this stater belongs, was struck during a period of acute Roman administrative pressure on Greek federal coinage. By the mid-first century BC, the League operated under Roman provincial oversight following Macedon's fall in 168 BC and the subsequent reorganization of Greek affairs — its coinage rights effectively a Roman concession. The three magistrate names appearing on this issue reflect the League's collegial mint authority, a survival of older federal governance structures increasingly hollowed out under Roman rule.