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Æ22 - Nero ΠΟΜΠΗΙΟΠΟΛΙΤΩΝ ΛΡ
| Issuer | Pompeiopolis (Cilicia) |
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| Year | 64-65 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Bare head of Pompey the Great facing right, rendered in a naturalistic Hellenistic style with individualized portraiture. A monogram and the letter Ρ appear in the field. The portrait exhibits characteristic features associated with Pompey, including a full face and swept hair. The die work is typical of provincial Cilician bronze coinage of the Neronian period. |
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| Reverse description | Nike, the goddess of victory, advancing right in full figure, wearing a chiton. She carries a long palm branch in her left hand and extends a wreath in her right hand. The figure is rendered in a dynamic striding pose characteristic of Hellenistic provincial coinage. The legend is distributed around the field. |
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Pompeiopolis was founded by Pompey the Great following his defeat of the Cilician pirates in 67 BC, and the city retained fierce civic pride in that origin well into the imperial period. The local bronze coinage of Nero's reign was dated by the city's own era — ΛΡ represents year 130 of that Pompeian civic calendar, anchoring this piece firmly to 64–65 AD, the years immediately following the great fire of Rome and the beginning of Nero's most erratic phase of rule.
Provincial civic bronzes from Cilicia of this period were produced entirely under local magistrate authority, with Rome exercising no direct control over the dies or output.