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Æ19 - Antoninus Pius ΚΑΛΛΑ (Αs shaped as Λs)
| Issuer | Callatis (Moesia) |
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| Year | 138-140 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Reverse description | Cybele, the turreted mother goddess, seated on a throne facing left, rendered in the conventional provincial Antonine style. She extends her right hand holding a patera in offering, while her left arm rests upon a tympanum at her side. The city ethnic ΚΑΛΛΑ appears in the exergue or field, with the distinctive feature that the alpha characters are formed as lambda shapes, a well-documented epigraphic peculiarity of Callatis coinage. The figure's throne and posture follow iconographic conventions associated with the civic cult of Cybele as tutelary deity of the colony. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΚΑΛΛΑ (Αs shaped as Λs) |
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Callatis, a Milesian colony on the Black Sea coast, retained considerable civic autonomy under Rome and issued its own bronze coinage well into the imperial period. The rendering of ΚΑΛΛΑ with Αs formed as Λs is not a cutter's error — it reflects a deliberate archaizing or regional epigraphic convention documented on several Callatian issues of this period, and helps distinguish local die production from centrally influenced work.