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Æ18 - Antoninus Pius ΑΜΑϹΤΡΙΑΝΩΝ
| Issuer | Amastris (Bithynia and Pontus) |
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| Year | 144-161 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | Hygieia, goddess of health, depicted standing facing right in long chiton and himation, extending a patera in her right hand from which a large serpent, coiling upward from the ground, feeds. The figure is rendered in the conventional Hellenistic style typical of Pontic civic bronzes. The ethnic legend ΑΜΑϹΤΡΙΑΝΩΝ is distributed around the periphery of the field. |
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Amastris was a coastal city on the Black Sea founded by the Macedonian noblewoman Amastris — niece of Darius III and briefly wife of Lysimachus — whose name the city carried through every subsequent century of occupation. By the Antonine period it had become a prosperous regional hub, and its civic bronze issues reflect a municipality confident enough in its status to circulate local coinage under imperial authority without needing Rome's direct hand in the design. The city's mint output under Antoninus Pius is modest by volume, making individual survivors worth attention.