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Æ17 - Augustus ΝΥΣΑΕΩΝ
| Issuer | Nysa (Conventus of Ephesus) |
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| Year | 27 BC - 14 AD |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Mint | Nysa, Lydia |
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Nysa, situated in the Maeander valley of Lydia, was one of the more culturally ambitious cities of the Ephesian conventus — home to a notable school of rhetoric and, according to Strabo, the birthplace of his own teacher Aristodemus. The city's civic coinage under Augustus reflects its integration into the provincial order following Actium, when much of the Greek East shifted from reluctant Antonian loyalty to enthusiastic accommodation of the new regime.
Strabo visited Nysa personally and described its double-city layout, bisected by a torrent.