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| Issuer | Lampsacus (Conventus of Adramyteum) |
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| Year | 45 BC |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | C G I L |
| Reverse description | A togatus figure, identified as a Roman priest or founder, strides rightward guiding a yoke of two oxen as they pull a plough, depicting the ritual of colonial foundation (sulcus primigenius). The scene is rendered in typical Roman colonial imagery, commemorating the formal establishment of the colonia. The Latin legend naming the two duoviri coloniae deducendae praefecti is distributed across the field in multiple lines surrounding the central type. |
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