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Æ17 - Antoninus Pius ΚΙΛΒΙ ΠΕΡΙ Ν
| Issuer | Nicaea Cilbianorum (Conventus of Ephesus) |
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| Year | 138-161 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Reverse description | Telesphorus, the youthful deity of convalescence and son of Asclepius, depicted standing facing in his characteristic hooded cloak (cucullus), arms at his sides. The squat, cloaked frontal figure is rendered in the simplified style typical of small provincial Lydian bronzes. The Greek legend ΚΙΛΒΙ ΠΕΡΙ Ν, identifying the issuing community of Nicaea Cilbianorum (Κιλβιανῶν Περί), is distributed in the field to the left and right of the figure. The reverse fabric shows flat relief consistent with worn or weakly struck provincial issues of the Antonine period. |
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| Mintage | ND (138-161) |
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Nicaea Cilbianorum was a small inland city of Lydia — not to be confused with the far more prominent Nicaea in Bithynia — situated in the Cayster River valley and subordinate to the Ephesian conventus for judicial administration. Its coins are scarce precisely because it was a minor settlement minting only sporadically under the Antonines. The ethnic legend ΚΙΛΒΙ ΠΕΡΙ Ν references the Cilbian district, a geographic designation that appears inconsistently across surviving specimens, suggesting limited and possibly interrupted production runs.