Æ20 - Antoninus Pius ΑΜΑϹΤΡΙΑΝΩΝ

Amastris was a city with an outsized literary reputation — Pliny the Younger, who governed Bithynia-Pontus around 110 AD, described it in a letter to Trajan as one of the finest cities in the province, though he also complained about an open sewer running through its center. Local bronze coinage under Antoninus Pius reflects the city's steady civic confidence during a reign deliberately uneventful by design — Pius famously never left Italy after his accession, administering the provinces entirely through correspondence and appointed officials.