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Æ18 - Antoninus Pius ΑΓΧΙΑΛΕΩΝ
| Issuer | Anchialus (Thracia) |
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| Year | 138-161 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse lettering | ΑΔΡ ΑΝΤΩΝΕΙΝΟϹ (Translation: Hadrian Antoninus) |
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| Reverse lettering | ΑΓΧΙΑΛΕΩΝ (Translation: of the Anchialans) |
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Anchialus, a Black Sea coastal city in Thrace, produced a modest civic bronze coinage under Antoninus Pius as part of the broader flowering of provincial mint activity that characterized his unusually peaceful 23-year reign. The city's Greek identity — signaled by the ethnic ΑΓΧΙΑΛΕΩΝ — persisted firmly under Roman administration, a pattern common to Thracian poleis that retained their civic institutions while nominally deferring to imperial authority.
RPC IV.1 #4515 is known from a small survivor pool, typical of Anchialus issues from this period, which were produced in limited volume for purely local use.