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Æ18 C MATVINVS T ANICIVS AED
| Issuer | Parium (Conventus of Adramyteum) |
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| Year | 45 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | A praefericulum (a handled ritual libation jug used in Roman religious ceremonies) depicted upright in the central field, rendered with careful detail showing the vessel's elongated neck and curved handle. The design reflects the Roman colonial character of the mint at Parium and the religious connotations associated with aedilician office. The magistrates' names flank or surround the central device in a two-line or circular legend arrangement. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Parium, a Greek colony on the Propontis (modern Marmara Ereğlisi), retained the right to issue civic bronze under Roman provincial administration, and this piece names two local aediles — C. Matvinus and T. Anicius — whose magistracies anchor it to the mid-first century BC. The naming of Roman-style magistrates on Greek civic bronze is itself diagnostic of Parium's deeply Romanized municipal culture, unusual even among the cities of the Adramyteum conventus. 45 BC places production squarely in the final year of Caesar's dictatorship.