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Æ20 - Marcus Aurelius ΑΡΓΕΙωΝ
| Issuer | Argos (Achaea) |
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| Year | 161-180 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Laureate, draped bust of Marcus Aurelius facing right, rendered in the provincial style typical of Achaean civic coinage. The emperor's effigy displays his characteristic beard and laurel wreath. A partially preserved Greek legend curves around the periphery of the flan, reading ΑΝΤΩΝΙΝΟϹ ΑΥΓΟΥϹΤΟϹ, identifying the emperor by his regnal title. The strike is somewhat weak, consistent with the irregular flan characteristic of this provincial issue. |
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| Reverse description | Full-length figure of Isis standing left, crowned with a kalathos, rendered in a slender provincial style. The goddess raises her right hand holding a sistrum and carries a situla in her lowered left hand, attributes emblematic of her Egyptian cult as adopted into Greek civic religion. The ethnic legend ΑΡΓΕΙωΝ appears in the field, identifying the issuing city of Argos. The flan is irregular and the strike shows the characteristic softness of Peloponnesian provincial bronze coinage of the Antonine period. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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