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Æ16 - Nero EX CON C C I B
| Issuer | Buthrotum (Achaea) |
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| Year | 54-68 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Victory personified advancing to the right, depicted in flowing drapery with wings spread, her figure rendered in the summary style typical of provincial colonial bronzes. She carries attributes consistent with her iconographic type. The surrounding field bears the colonial legend in two parts, partially legible, referencing the authority and identity of the issuing colony of Buthrotum. The flan is irregular and the legend partially off-flan. |
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Buthrotum — modern Butrint in Albania — was a Roman colony whose coinage under Nero was authorized by the local council, hence the colonial council formula appearing on these issues. The town's colonial status dated to Julius Caesar, though actual settlement was delayed and completed under Augustus. Provincial bronze of this scale circulated almost exclusively within the colony itself, rarely traveling far enough to accumulate the heavy wear seen on equivalent metropolitan issues.