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Æ20 - Augustus C A A P, PATRIAE
| Issuer | Patras (Achaea) |
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| Year | 27 BC - 14 AD |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed effigy of Augustus facing right, rendered as a draped bust with finely detailed hair brushed forward in the Augustan style. The portrait displays the characteristic youthful idealization associated with early imperial iconography. The legend PATER appears partially visible in the right field. The coin is struck within a plain border, and the overall style reflects provincial Greek die-cutting of the Augustan period. |
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| Reverse description | A togated male figure, identified as the colony's founder or a civic dignitary, drives a yoke of two oxen to the right in the act of ploughing the ritual sulcus primigenius, symbolizing the foundation of the Roman colony at Patras. The scene is framed by the abbreviated colonial legend C A A P in the upper field and PATRIAE along the lower exergual line. The composition follows the conventional Roman colonial foundation type widely employed on Augustan provincial bronzes. |
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| Mint | Patras (Colonia Aroe Augusta Patrensis), Achaea |
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