Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
Æ18 - Antoninus Pius ΔΗΜΗΤ ΝΕΙΚΟ
| Issuer | Nicomedia (Bithynia and Pontus) |
|---|---|
| Year | 138-161 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Round (irregular) |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Full-length figure of the goddess Demeter, veiled and standing to the left, rendered in the conventional provincial style. She holds two ears of grain in her right hand and a long torch in her left hand, attributes closely associated with the chthonic and agrarian aspects of her cult. The divided civic legend appears in the field on either side of the standing figure, referencing the issuing city of Nicomedia. |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Nicomedia |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
Nicomedia had long cultivated its status as the leading city of Bithynia, and local bronze issues under Antoninus Pius reflect that civic ambition — the city minted prolifically throughout his reign, producing a dense series of small bronzes tied to local cult, festival, and title competitions with neighboring Nicaea. The abbreviation ΔΗΜΗΤ ΝΕΙΚΟ almost certainly references Demeter, whose worship was well established in the region, embedded in a civic religious economy that Roman provincial administration left largely intact.
The reference IV.1#5588 places this within the Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum framework for Bithynia. These small civic bronzes rarely traveled far from their city of issue.