Æ22 - Antoninus Pius ΖΕΥϹ ϹΥΡ ΤΙΑΝΩΝ

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.