| Roma Numismatics Ltd > E-Sale 118 | Auction date: 8 April 2024 |
| Lot number: 1049 Price realized: Unsold | Show similar lots on CoinArchives Find similar lots in upcoming auctions on  |
| Lot description: Caracalla Æ Diassarion of Thuria, Messenia. AD 198-205. AV K M AV ANѠT[...](sic), laureate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / Θ[ΟΥΡΙΑΤѠΝ], Athena standing facing, head to left, holding spear and patera or Nike; Λ-Α across fields. Cf. BCD Peloponnesos 834.3 (patera) & 4 (Nike); cf. BMC 5-6 (patera); NPC p. 65 (patera). 6.02g, 20mm, 9h. Good Fine. 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 |  |
