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Æ20 - Marcus Aurelius COL A A PATRE
| Issuer | Patras (Achaea) |
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| Year | 161-169 |
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| Diameter | 20 mm |
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| Obverse description | Laureate and draped bust of Lucius Verus facing right, rendered in the provincial Roman style. The emperor's effigy displays a youthful portrait with characteristic beard, consistent with early co-reign imagery. The surrounding legend encircles the bust along the rim within a beaded border. The portrait is modeled in moderate relief typical of Achaean colonial bronze coinage of the Antonine period. |
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| Reverse description | A founder-priest, depicted as a togated figure, drives a yoke of two oxen to the left, ploughing the sacred furrow (sulcus primigenius) to demarcate the city boundaries of the Roman colony of Patras. The scene is a classic colonial foundation type widely used by Patras under the Antonines. The legend is distributed in the field around the central design. The exergual area carries part of the colonial abbreviation, and the composition is rendered with bold, if somewhat compact, provincial workmanship. |
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| Mint | Patras (Colonia Aroe Augusta Patrensis) |
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