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Æ20 - Faustina II ΠΑΛΑΙΟΠΟΛΕΙΤΩΝ
| Issuer | Palaeopolis |
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| Year | 147-161 |
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| Weight | 4.4 g |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Faustina II facing right, her hair elaborately waved and drawn back in the characteristic Antonine court style, arranged in a bun at the nape. The effigy is rendered in the provincial Greek tradition with moderate relief. The Greek legend ΦΑΥϹΤΕΙΝΑ ϹΕΒΑϹΤ (Faustina Augusta) is disposed around the bust in the field, partially legible on this example due to wear. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Palaeopolis was a small Macedonian city whose civic coinage is poorly documented and survives in very limited numbers. Issues attributed to the reign of Faustina II as Augusta — before Marcus Aurelius acceded alone in 161 — represent the municipality exercising the provincial privilege of bronze emission under the Antonine settlement, a right that many minor Macedonian cities held only intermittently.
The IV.3#7692 reference places this within a specialized corpus of provincial bronzes where die linkage studies remain incomplete.