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Æ17 - Trajan ΑΒΔΗΡΕΙΤΑΙ
| Issuer | Abdera (Thracia) |
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| Year | 98-117 |
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| Diameter | 17 mm |
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| Reverse description | Nike, the goddess of victory, standing left upon a raised basis or podium, depicted in flowing drapery. She holds a wreath extended in her right hand and a tall palm branch in her left, both attributes emblematic of victory. The ethnic legend ΑΒΔΗΡΕΙΤΑΙ curves around the reverse field, identifying the issuing civic authority as the citizens of Abdera in Thrace. |
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| Mintage | ND (98-117) |
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Abdera, the Thracian coastal city best known in antiquity as the birthplace of Democritus and the repeated butt of jokes about its inhabitants' supposed stupidity, maintained active civic bronze production under Trajan as the emperor consolidated Roman control across the Danube frontier. The city's Greek ethnic designation — ΑΒΔΗΡΕΙΤΑΙ — on civic bronzes of this period reflects the municipality's continued assertion of its Hellenic identity under Roman provincial administration.