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Æ22 - Marcus Aurelius ΑΡΧ ΑΙΛ ΖΩΙΛ ΑΒΥΔΗ
| Issuer | Abydus (Conventus of Adramyteum) |
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| Year | 177-179 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
| Obverse lettering | ΑΥ Κ Λ Α ΚΟΜΟΔΟϹ (Translation: Emperor Caesar Lucius Aurelius Commodus) |
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Abydus sat at the narrowest point of the Hellespont — less than a mile of water separating it from Sestus — and controlled one of antiquity's most strategically critical crossings. The city's coinage under Marcus Aurelius reflects a period when the emperor was largely consumed by the Marcomannic Wars on the Danube frontier, leaving provincial administration to local magistrates whose names, like ΖΩΙΛΟΣ, appear on these bronzes as the primary civic authority. The archon designation ΑΡΧ confirms this was an eponymous magistracy, not merely an honorary title.