| Roma Numismatics Ltd > E-Sale 118 | Auction date: 8 April 2024 |
| Lot number: 1039 Price realized: 190 GBP (Approx. 240 USD / 221 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | Show similar lots on CoinArchives Find similar lots in upcoming auctions on  |
| Lot description: Julia Domna (wife of S. Severus) Æ Assarion of Thuria, Messenia. AD 193-217. IOVΛI ΔOMNA CЄBA[CTH AV], draped bust to right / ΘOVPI[ATѠ]N, Tyche, turreted, standing facing, head to left, holding patera and cornucopiae; Λ-Α across fields. BCD Peloponnesos 830.4 var. (S. Severus); BCD Peloponnesos II -; BMC 7 var. (Caracalla); SNG Copenhagen -; Mionnet 66 var. (rudder instead of patera); NCP p. 66 (not for J. Domna). 4.80g, 21mm, 8h. Near Very Fine. Extremely Rare; unpublished and possibly unique. The inscription Λ-A (ΛΑΚΕΔΑΙΜΟΝΙΩΝ) on reverse is an evidence that in the time of Severus and his family Thuria formed part of Laconia. According to Pausanias (Description of Greece, IV.31.1): 'Eighty stades on the road which leads thence into the interior of Messenia is the city of the Thuriatae, which they say had the name Antheia in Homer's poems. Augustus gave Thuria into the possession of the Lacedaemonians of Sparta' Estimate: 50 GBP |  |
