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Æ22 - Elagabalus ΠΡΟΥϹΑΕΩΝ
| Issuer | Prusa ad Olympum (Bithynia and Pontus) |
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| Year | 218-222 |
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| Weight | 6.12 g |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse lettering | ΠΡΟΥϹΑΕΩΝ (Translation: of the Prusaeans) |
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Prusa ad Olympum was a modest Bithynian city that nonetheless maintained active civic bronze production under Elagabalus, whose four-year reign generated an outsized volume of provincial issues relative to its brevity. The city's coins from this period reflect the administrative normalcy of a province that largely ignored the more scandalous dimensions of his rule in Rome — mint operations continued without interruption from 218 through his murder in 222.
The VI#3018 reference places this within Varbanov's corpus of Bithynian bronzes, a catalog notorious among specialists for incomplete die linkage documentation on Prusan issues specifically.