| Roma Numismatics Ltd > E-Sale 118 | Auction date: 8 April 2024 |
| Lot number: 1050 Price realized: Unsold | Show similar lots on CoinArchives Find similar lots in upcoming auctions on  |
| Lot description: Caracalla Æ Assarion of Thuria, Messenia. AD 198-205. [...]M AVPH ANTѠNIN[...], laureate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / ΘΟΥΡΙΑΤѠΝ, Tyche standing facing, head to left, holding patera and cornucopia; Λ-Α across fields. Cf. BCD Peloponnesos 834.6; BMC 7 var. (obv. legend); NPC p. 66. 3.72g, 20mm, 6h. Very Fine. Apparently unpublished obverse legend. 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 |  |
