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Æ17 - Marcus Aurelius ΝΑΚΡΑϹΕΩΝ
| Issuer | Nacrasa (Conventus of Pergamum) |
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| Year | 161-163 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Nike, winged goddess of victory, depicted advancing to the left in full figure, her wings partially spread behind her. She holds a wreath outstretched in her right hand and a long palm-branch in her left, both attributes being standard iconographic elements in provincial victory types. The figure is rendered in low relief consistent with Lydian provincial coinage of the Antonine period. The ethnic legend ΝΑΚΡΑϹΕΩΝ is distributed around the field, identifying the issuing city of Nacrasa. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΝΑΚΡΑϹΕΩΝ |
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Nacrasa was a minor Lydian city whose civic coinage under Marcus Aurelius coincides almost exactly with the opening of the Parthian War — the conflict that would ultimately drag Lucius Verus eastward and introduce the Antonine Plague to the Roman world. Small bronzes of this type circulated locally within the Pergamene conventus, the judicial district Rome used to administer western Anatolia, and rarely traveled far.