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| Issuer | Magnetes |
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| Year | 150 BC - 130 BC |
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| Reference(s) | BCD Thessaly I#1184, Rogers#337 |
| Obverse description | Laureate head of Zeus facing right, rendered in the Hellenistic tradition with finely detailed hair and beard. Behind the head, the name of the responsible magistrate is inscribed in small Greek letters. The portrait exhibits strong modelling characteristic of Thessalian bronze coinage of the period. The legend ΛΕΟΝΤΟΣ, identifying the magistrate Leonton, appears in the field to the rear of the head. |
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| Mintage | ND (150 BC - 130 BC) |
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The Magnetes occupied a narrow coastal strip of Thessaly hugging the Pelion peninsula, and their autonomous bronze coinage reflects a brief window of confederate independence before Roman administrative reorganization progressively absorbed the region's civic institutions. By the 140s BC, Rome's restructuring of Macedonia and its Greek dependencies was already constraining local monetary autonomy across Thessaly.
Rogers 337 and the BCD specimen represent the core reference points for this type, with the BCD Thessaly collection — assembled by a single dedicated collector over decades — remaining the definitive comparative resource for Thessalian bronzes of this period.