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Æ16 - Antoninus Pius ΑΒΥ[
| Issuer | Abydus (Conventus of Adramyteum) |
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| Year | 138-161 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse lettering | (obverse legend obscure) (Translation: of the Abydans [---]) |
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| Mintage | ND (138-161) |
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Abydus sat at the narrowest point of the Hellespont, and its coinage under Antoninus Pius reflects a city whose strategic importance had long outlasted its political independence. The conventus system grouped it administratively under Adramyteum, a Roman judicial circuit arrangement that explains the otherwise puzzling regional clustering of these small bronzes. The truncated ethnic in the legend — ΑΒΥ[ — is a recurring feature of the series, a consequence of tight flans and no apparent effort by the die cutters to compensate.