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Æ22 - Antoninus Pius ΖΕΥϹ ϹΥΡ ΤΙΑΝΩΝ
| Issuer | Tium (Bithynia and Pontus) |
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| Year | 138-161 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed bust of Antoninus Pius facing right, with characteristic portrait features of the emperor rendered in the provincial Greek style. The bust is draped and truncated at the shoulder. A Greek imperial legend surrounds the effigy, reading partially around the periphery of the flan. The portrait displays the emperor's distinctive curled beard and hair, consistent with Antonine-period civic coinage of Bithynia. |
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| Obverse lettering | ΑΥ ΤΙ ΑΙ ΑΝΤΩΝΙΝοc (Translation: Emperor Titus Aelius Antoninus) |
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Tium was a coastal city on the Black Sea shore of Bithynia, never among the region's more prominent mints, and its civic bronze output under Antoninus Pius survives in small numbers precisely because local production was irregular rather than sustained. The epithet ΖΕΥϹ ϹΥΡΙΑΝΟΣ — Zeus of the Syrians — is the genuine curiosity here: it points to a cult of Syrian origin that had taken root in Bithynian civic religion, likely carried by merchants or settlers along well-documented trade routes connecting the Black Sea coast to the Levant during the imperial period.