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Æ19 - Hadrian ΚΥΜΑΙωΝ
| Issuer | Cyme (Conventus of Smyrna) |
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| Year | 117-138 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Reverse description | Standing figure of Isis in full length, facing left, clad in a long chiton and mantle knotted at the breast in the characteristic Isiac knot. She holds a sistrum raised in her right hand and a situla (sacred water bucket) in her lowered left hand. The deity is rendered in a hieratic posture common to provincial bronze coinage of Asia Minor during the Antonine era. The ethnic legend of the issuing city encircles the field. |
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| Mintage | ND (117-138) |
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Cyme, one of the oldest Aeolian Greek foundations on the Aegean coast, retained the right to strike civic bronze under Roman imperial oversight through the conventus system, whereby Smyrna served as the administrative hub for regional judicial and monetary affairs. Local bronze of this type circulated almost exclusively within the immediate civic territory — Rome had no interest in standardizing the fractional small change of provincial cities, so Cyme's magistrates effectively ran their own show at the lower end of the monetary spectrum.