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Æ19 - Commodus ΚΥΖΙΚΗ (Ζ shaped as エ)
| Issuer | Cyzicus (Conventus of Cyzicus) |
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| Year | 186-192 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Mint | Cyzicus, modern-day Kapıdağ Peninsula, Turkey |
| Mintage | ND (186-192) |
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Cyzicus was among the most prolific civic minting authorities in Mysia during the Antonine and Severan periods, but the orthographic peculiarity noted here — the Ζ rendered in a form resembling the Japanese katakana エ — is a genuine epigraphic curiosity documented in provincial bronzes from this mint. Such letterform variants were not errors but reflect the idiosyncratic punch-cutting habits of individual engravers, and they occasionally serve as diagnostic markers for die-linking studies across the Cyzicene civic series.