Æ22 - Nerva ΑΠΟΛΛΩΝΙΑΤΩΝ ΡΥΝ

Apollonia ad Rhyndacum was a minor Bithynian city whose coinage under the Flavians and Nerva was tied directly to the administrative restructuring of the conventus system — the Roman judicial circuit centered on Cyzicus that grouped smaller communities for purposes of Roman oversight. Nerva's reign lasted just fifteen months, making any provincial bronze issued under him chronologically constrained by definition. The ethnic abbreviation ΡΥΝ in the legend has generated discussion among specialists; it likely references the Rhyndacus river, distinguishing this Apollonia from the better-known Apollonia Pontica.