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Æ16 - Antoninus Pius ΤΗΙΩΝ
| Issuer | Teos (Conventus of Smyrna) |
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| Year | 138-161 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Bare head of Silenus facing right, wearing an ivy wreath; the coarse, aged features characteristic of the Dionysiac companion are rendered in low relief. The field is plain and uninscribed, with no border legend present. The style reflects the local Ionian civic coinage tradition of the mid-second century AD. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Teos, an Ionian coastal city best known in antiquity as the birthplace of the poet Anacreon, struck a modest series of civic bronzes under Antoninus Pius as part of the broader Greek imperial coinage that flourished when Rome extended municipal minting rights across Asia Minor. The ethnic ΤΗΙΩΝ — "of the Teians" — was the city's assertion of local identity within that framework. Small module civic bronzes of this type from Teos are poorly represented in major collections, and die studies for the series remain incomplete.