Trichalkon ΜΕ, Messene

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Beschrijving keerzijde	Upright Heraclean club depicted in the central field, with the ethnic monogram ΜΕ (for Messene) inscribed to the left, all enclosed within or flanked by a wreath. The design is typical of Messenian civic bronze coinage of the early Imperial period, with the club serving as the principal identifying emblem of the city's patron hero.
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Aanvullende informatie	Messene's status as a free city under Roman authority — confirmed by Flamininus in 191 BC and reaffirmed under Augustus — gave the polis the right to strike its own bronze civic coinage well into the imperial period. RPC I 1115A sits within a small group of Messenian issues whose attribution has been revised since the original RPC I print volume; the "A" suffix denotes a type identified through the online supplement rather than the printed corpus.

MISSCHIEN OOK INTERESSANT