Messenia. Thuria. Caracalla AD 198-217.
Assarion Æ

22 mm., 4,51 g.

AV K M A[...], laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind / ΘOV-PI-[ATΩN], female figure standing facing, head to left, holding uncertain object in right hand and scepter in left, Λ-A across fields.

nearly very fine

Cf. BCD Peloponnesos 834.3 (Athena holding spear and patera) & 834.4 (Athena holding spear and Nike).

Ex BCD Collection. The letters Λ-A on reverse prove that in the time of Severus and his family Thuria formed part of Laconia.