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Stater - Petraios and Ptolemaios
| Issuer | Thessalian League |
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| Year | 48 BC - 45 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Thessalian League was reorganized under Roman supervision following the Battle of Pydna in 168 BC, but it was the upheavals of the mid-first century BC — specifically the civil wars between Caesar and Pompey, whose forces moved directly through Thessaly — that give coins of this narrow window their historical charge. The names Petraios and Ptolemaios appearing together identify the two serving strategoi, the league's elected magistrates, whose names anchor this issue to a specific administrative moment rather than a reign.
SNG Copenhagen 290 remains the standard reference point for this pairing.