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Æ20 - Antoninus Pius ΕΠΙ ϹΤΡ ΔΙΟΝΥϹΙΟΥ ΤΟ Β ΤΟΥ ϹΑΤΥΡΟΥ ΑΙΓΑΕΩΝ
| Issuer | Aegae (Conventus of Smyrna) |
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| Year | 138-161 |
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| Diameter | 20 mm |
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| Obverse description | Laureate, draped bust of Antoninus Pius facing right, the emperor rendered in the provincial Greek style with a finely detailed laurel wreath crowning the head. The encircling legend runs around the periphery of the flan, partially legible due to the irregular flan and surface patination. The portrait displays the characteristic mature physiognomy of Antoninus Pius with a full beard, consistent with provincial bronze coinage struck under his reign. |
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| Reverse description | Cult statue of Apollo Chresterios depicted standing upon a small rectangular base and facing right, the figure rendered in the archaic xoanon tradition characteristic of this local Aegaean type. The deity holds a taenia (ritual fillet) in one hand and a laurel branch in the other, attributes closely associated with the oracular and purifying aspects of Apollo. The encircling legend naming the local strategos Dionysios, son of Satyros, serving for the second time, frames the type, a magistrate formula typical of Greek imperial civic bronzes from the Conventus of Smyrna. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΕΠΙ ϹΤΡ ΔΙΟΝΥϹΙΟΥ ΤΟ Β ΤΟΥ ϹΑΤΥΡΟΥ ΑΙΓΑΕΩΝ (Translation: under strategos Dionysios, son of Satyros, for the second time, of the Aegaeans) |
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