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Æ17 ΚΗωΝ
| Issuer | Ceos |
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| Year | 27 BC - AD 14 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | Standing draped female figure, likely a local deity or personification associated with the island of Ceos, rendered in a frontal or three-quarter pose with drapery falling to the feet. The Greek legend ΚΗωΝ, denoting the ethnic of the Keians (inhabitants of Ceos), is inscribed vertically to the left of the figure. The composition is characteristic of Aegean civic bronze coinage of the Augustan period, combining a civic type with the ethnic legend. |
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Ceos, the Aegean island best known as the birthplace of Simonides, issued coins under Augustus with the ethnic abbreviated as ΚΗωΝ — a form attested on only a handful of bronze types from this period. RPC I 1300A is among the rarer entries in the Augustan provincial sequence for the Cyclades, with very few specimens recorded.