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Æ16 - Domitian C I (?) ANN CXXX
| Issuer | Sinope (Bithynia and Pontus) |
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| Year | 81-96 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse lettering | C I F(?) ANN CXXX (Translation: the Julian colony of Felix (Sinope), in year 13[.]) |
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| Mint | Sinope |
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Sinope's colonial era dating system — reckoning years from its refoundation as a Roman colony under Julius Caesar in 45 BC — places this issue's "Year 130" squarely within Domitian's reign. The city had been a strategically vital Black Sea port for centuries before Caesar's colonists arrived, and it retained enough civic pride to maintain its own local bronze coinage well into the imperial period, a privilege not universally extended to Pontic cities.
The attribution to Domitian carries a question mark in the references, as the colonial year alone drives the identification.