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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bing, post: 2009383, member: 44132&quot;]Beginning about 1000 BC, the two plains of Thessaly were united in a federation under a single chief. The Thessalian League was created in the late sixth century BC by Aleuas the Red.</p><p><br /></p><p>Although the Thessalians were a dominant state in Greek affairs early in its life, the state became weak following the outbreak of internal rivalries in the fifth century BC. In the aftermath of the Lamian War, Thessaly was effectively partitioned between Macedon and the Aetolian Confederacy, and was relegated to a setting for competing militaries, including the Romans.</p><p><br /></p><p>Following the Roman Republic’s defeat of Macedon, T. Quinctius Flamininus, the victorious general, headed a senatorial commission to establish a protectorate in Greece. As a diplomatic gesture, he pronounced that those Greek areas (including Thessaly) which were formerly under Macedonian control were now free. Flamininus then revived an independent Thessalian League, which had been under the control of the Macedonian king since the time of Philip II.</p><p><br /></p><p>Reorganized along the pre-Macedonian model, this new version was autonomous and included neighboring Thessalian districts as members. When the rest of Greece was reduced to the status of a Roman province, the Thessalian League continued to exist as an ally of Rome. Although the Thessalian League appeared to exist in some form or other throughout the Roman Empire, it had become a ceremonial body that provided positions for the local elite and its history became interwoven with that of Thessaly proper.</p><p><br /></p><p>A series of coins comprised solely of silver coinage in three denominations (stater, drachm, and hemidrachm/obol), was the first truely Thessalian League &quot;federal&quot; coinage. All issues bore the ethnic ΘΕΣΣΑΛΙΩΝ, along with the responsible magistrates&#039; names, and were likely minted at Larissa, the capital of the League. Unfortunately, this federal coinage was the last Thessalian coinage to ever be minted.</p><p><br /></p><p>The above information gathered from various internet sources.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is my first and only coin of the revived Thessalian League:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]361721[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]361722[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]361723[/ATTACH]</p><p>THESSALIAN LEAGUE, AR Drachm&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p>Obv: Laureate head of Apollo right, ΓAYANA (magistrate) behind</p><p>Rev: Athena Itonia standing right, with shield and about to hurl spear, ΘEΣΣA - ΛΩN to sides, bunch of grapes on vine right, Π-O / Λ-Y (magistrate) across lower fields&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Struck at Larissa 196-146 BC&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; </p><p>4.0g, 16 mm&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p>BMC 36[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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