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Æ22 - Marcus Aurelius ΕΠΙ ϹΤΡ ΒΑϹϹΟΥ ΑΚΡΑϹΙΩΤΩΝ
| Issuer | Acrasus (Conventus of Pergamum) |
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| Year | 177-179 |
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| Weight | 5.25 g |
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| Reverse description | Nude Apollo standing left, his weight distributed in a classical contrapposto stance, extending a laurel branch in his right hand and holding a bow in his left. The figure is rendered in the Hellenistic tradition common to Lydian civic bronzes, with the god's attributes clearly identifying him as the patron deity associated with the mint city. The encircling legend ΕΠΙ ϹΤΡ ΒΑϹϹΟΥ ΑΚΡΑϹΙΩΤΩΝ names the local magistrate Bassus and the civic ethnikon of Acrasus. The reverse die is considerably worn, with the figure retaining only moderate relief on this example. |
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| Mintage | ND (177-179) |
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Acrasus was a minor Lydian city whose civic coinage depended entirely on the prestige of the presiding Roman magistrate — here, a strategos named Bassus, whose name anchors the coin's authority. The city struck under multiple emperors during the Antonine period, always naming the local official prominently, a practice that tells us more about municipal politics than about Rome itself.
The narrow window of 177–179 AD places this issue within the brief co-reign of Marcus Aurelius and Commodus, though provincial bronzes of Acrasus from this period attributing the emission to Marcus alone are considerably less common than those struck earlier in his sole reign.