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| Uitgever | Messene (Achaea) |
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| Jaar | 27 BC - 68 AD |
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| Oriëntatie | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | Veiled and draped bust of Tyche to right, surmounted by a turreted mural crown, the veil falling behind the neck; the effigy rendered in low relief with broad, flat modelling characteristic of Peloponnesian civic bronze coinage of the early Imperial period. The ethnic legend MECCHNIωN appears in the field, identifying the issuing community of Messene. |
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| Schrift voorzijde | Greek |
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Messene's bronze coinage of the early imperial period reflects the city's careful navigation of Roman patronage — Augustus personally intervened in Peloponnesian civic disputes, and Messene's status as a formally "free" city under Roman oversight gave its magistrates unusual latitude to continue issuing civic bronze long after neighboring poleis had curtailed local production.