Description: Thessaly, Thessalian League, Nero (54 - 68 AD). Laouchos, strategos. NEPΩN KAIΣAP ΘEΣΣAΛΩN; laureate head right / ΛAOVXOV ΣTPATHΓOV; Apollo Kitharoedos seated right, holding kithara in his left hand, playing it with his right.

Diameter: AE27 mm

Weight: 12,38 g

Grade: aVF/gF

Attribution: RPC I 1444

Commentary: flat strike, light geen patina; scarce coin

History: In 67 AD Nero ordered 6000 slaves to dug a canal through the Isthmus of Corinth, but after his death one year later and some 800 meters (of 6 km total length) the project was abandoned.

Article Number: 003-02-01-41652