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Æ16 - Antoninus Pius ΕΠΙ ΠΟΛΙΤοΥ ΜΙΛΗϹΙΩΝ (Ε with dot instead of horizontal stroke and ΟΛΙΤοΥ retrograde)
| Issuer | Miletus (Conventus of Miletus) |
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| Year | 139-146 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Reverse description | The river-god Maiandros personified as a reclining male figure, turned to the left with head turned back to the right; his right hand is raised to rest upon his head, while his left arm leans upon a water-urn from which water flows, a standard iconographic type for riparian deities in Ionian civic coinage. The Greek magistrate legend ΕΠΙ ΠΟΛΙΤοΥ ΜΙΛΗϹΙΩΝ surrounds the type, with the epsilon rendered with a central dot in place of the horizontal bar and the letters ΟΛΙΤοΥ appearing retrograde, reflecting a die-cutting error. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΕΠΙ ΠΟΛΙΤοΥ ΜΙΛΗϹΙΩΝ ( (Ε with dot instead of horizontal stroke and ΟΛΙΤοΥ retrograde) |
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The retrograde lettering in the magistrate inscription — ΟΛΙΤοΥ running right-to-left within an otherwise normally oriented legend — almost certainly reflects a die-cutter's error rather than intentional archaism. The malformed Ε, rendered with a dot in place of the horizontal stroke, reinforces this: the engraver appears to have been working from a damaged or poorly transmitted model. Miletus, though a city of considerable prestige in the Conventus, produced small bronze at this denomination in volume, and quality control over individual die-cutters was inconsistent.