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Æ19 - Commodus ΚΥΖΙΚΗ
| Issuer | Cyzicus (Conventus of Cyzicus) |
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| Year | 180-186 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Kore Soteira facing right, her head adorned with a wreath of grain ears (corn-wreath), the iconography assimilated to or reminiscent of portrait conventions associated with Faustina II. The bust is rendered in the provincial style characteristic of Mysian civic coinage under Commodus. No legend is present on the obverse field. |
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| Reverse description | Two tunnies (Atlantic bluefin tuna, Thunnus thynnus) depicted in the field, one above the other: the upper tunny oriented to the left, the lower tunny oriented to the right, both rendered in profile in the schematic style typical of Cyzicene civic bronze coinage. The Greek ethnic legend ΚΥΖΙΚΗ arcs across the upper field above the fish. The tunny was the emblem of Cyzicus and a symbol of the city's celebrated fishing industry on the Propontis. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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