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Æ - Vespasian C I FE AN CXXII
| Issuer | Sinope (Bithynia and Pontus) |
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| Year | 76-77 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Reverse description | Archaistic bearded head of Bacchus (Dionysus) facing, rendered in the archaic Hellenic artistic convention with frontal presentation and stylised beard, recalling earlier Greek prototypes. The deity is shown with characteristic vine or ivy crown elements associated with his cult. The colonial legend C I FE (Colonia Iulia Felix) with the local era date AN CXXII (year 122, equating to 76-77 AD) appears in the field, affirming the Sinopean colonial identity and dating system. The reverse field is worn but retains the essential iconographic elements of the Bacchic type favoured by the Sinopean colonial mint. |
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| Mint | Sinope, Paphlagonia, modern-day Sinop, Turkey |
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Sinope's civic bronze coinage under Vespasian was issued within the framework of the city's long-standing autonomy as a Roman colony — Colonia Iulia Felix Sinope — a status it had held since Julius Caesar's refoundation in 45 BC. The date AN CXXII in the legend counts from that colonial foundation, placing this issue precisely in the city's own reckoning rather than by regnal year, a practice that distinguished Sinope from most other Pontic civic mints of the period.