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Æ19 - Domitian COL IVL [ ]
| Issuer | Corinth (Achaea) |
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| Year | 81-96 |
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| Diameter | 19 mm |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A standing female figure, possibly Hygieia or a local deity, depicted facing right and holding a jug or patera in her extended hand. In the field beside the figure, a serpent is shown entwined around a staff, an attribute commonly associated with Asclepius or Hygieia in Corinthian colonial iconography. The partially preserved colonial legend appears in the field and around the reverse design. |
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Corinth's colonial coinage under Domitian belongs to a municipally administered series that continued largely uninterrupted through the Flavian dynasty, with the colony exercising unusual autonomy in issuing bronze for local exchange. The truncated legend — COL IVL [ ] — reflects either a die crack, edge damage, or incomplete surviving specimen rather than an intentional abbreviation, as the full form COL IVL COR appears consistently across the Corinthian civic series.
The reference II#165 places this within BCD Corinth, the benchmark typology for colonial Corinthian bronzes catalogued through the 2015 Leu auction.