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Æ13 - Antoninus Pius ΚΩΙΩΝ
| Issuer | Cos (Conventus of Halicarnassus) |
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| Year | 138-161 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed youthful bust of Xenophon the Physician facing right, rendered in low relief in the local Coan provincial style. The portrait displays softly modelled features characteristic of Hellenistic-influenced civic coinage of the Antonine period. The legend encircles the bust in the field. The flan is slightly irregular, typical of small provincial bronze issues of this region. |
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| Obverse lettering | ΞΕΝΟΦωΝ ΙΕΡΕΥϹ (Translation: Xenophon, priest) |
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Cos — the island birthplace of Hippocrates — maintained civic coinage rights under the Conventus of Halicarnassus, one of the administrative groupings Rome used to organize judicial and monetary affairs across the provincia of Asia. Issues of this small denomination under Antoninus Pius are typically thin and prone to off-center strikes; surviving well-centered specimens are genuinely scarce.