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Æ17 - Trajan ΗΡΑΚΛΕΩΤΑΝ
| Issuer | Heraclea Pontica (Bithynia and Pontus) |
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| Year | 102-114 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse description | Laureate head of the emperor Trajan facing right, rendered in the typical provincial style of Bithynian civic coinage. The portrait displays the characteristic features of Trajan with a close-cropped laurel wreath. The abbreviated Greek imperial titulature is arranged around the bust in the field and along the periphery of the flan. |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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Heraclea Pontica had been a Greek colonial foundation since the sixth century BC and retained a fierce civic identity well into the Roman imperial period — local bronze issues like this one were struck on municipal authority, not imperial mandate, as a functional assertion of continued self-governance under Roman rule. The city's position on the Black Sea coast made it a critical provisioning stop for grain and timber moving westward, and its relative prosperity under Trajan's reign explains the sustained output of civic bronze at this scale.