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Æ19 - Nero Blaundus
| Issuer | Blaundus |
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| Year | 55 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Standing draped figure, likely a deity or personification, facing front in the field at center, with arms slightly extended. The legend ΤΙ ΚΛΑΥ ΚΑΛΛΙΓΕΝΗΣ ΒΛΑΥΝΔΕΩΝ, referencing the local magistrate Tiberius Claudius Kalligenes and the civic ethnic of the Blaundeans, is disposed in two vertical columns flanking the central figure, all within a dotted border. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΤΙ ΚΛΑΥ ΚΑΛΛΙΓΕΝΗΣ ΒΛΑΥΝΔΕΩΝ |
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Blaundus, a minor Lydian city of Macedonian foundation, issued coins under Nero early in his reign — before the emperor's public image had soured enough to prompt the kind of posthumous damnatio that erased his name from monuments elsewhere in the empire. Provincial bronzes from Lydian mints of this period were authorized locally, with the city bearing the cost of production as a form of political loyalty signaling to Rome. The RPC I 3059 attribution places this firmly within a well-documented but sparsely surviving group; BMC 63 specimens show consistent fabric suggesting a single short emission.