Catalog
Æ15 - Augustus Athlete running left
| Issuer | Corinth |
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| Year | 10 BC - 4 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A lit race torch depicted upright in the center of the field, with a flame issuing from the top, referencing the torch-races (lampadedromia) held during the Isthmian Games. The duoviri magistrates' names are inscribed in two lines flanking the torch to the left and right, identifying the issuing colonial magistrates. The composition is symmetrical and unadorned, typical of the Roman colonial bronze coinage of Corinth under Augustus. |
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Corinth's status as host of the Isthmian Games made athletic imagery a natural civic choice, but this issue dates to a specific administrative moment: the colony was under the duovirate system Rome had imposed after Julius Caesar's refoundation of the city in 44 BC, and magistrates' names on related RPC I 1135-series coins help anchor the sequence within Augustus's reorganization of Achaea into a formal province in 27 BC. The Isthmian Games themselves had been suspended during the period of Corinth's destruction and only revived under Roman colonial authority.