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Æ21 - Marcus Aurelius ΚΥΖΙΚΗΝΩΝ (Ζ shaped as エ)
| Issuer | Mint of Cyzicus |
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| Year | 161-169 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse lettering | ΑΥ ΚΑΙ Λ ΑΥΡΗ ΟΥΗΡΟϹ |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Cyzicus was one of the most commercially active mints in the eastern empire, and its civic bronze issues under Marcus Aurelius reflect a city still leveraging centuries of financial prestige — it had operated one of the ancient world's most respected electrum stater series before Roman absorption. The variant spelling of ΚΥΖΙΚΗΝΩΝ rendered with a Ζ formed in the shape of the Japanese katakana エ is a genuine epigraphic curiosity, likely a letter-cutter's regional habit rather than an error, and has been noted across a small cluster of dies from this period.