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Æ23 - Antoninus Pius DEo CVPIDINI CoL GEM IVL HA[
| Issuer | Parium (Conventus of Adramyteum) |
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| Year | 147-161 |
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| Weight | 8.05 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Amor (Eros/Cupid) depicted standing facing, head turned to the right, nude, with wings partially visible. The deity extends the right hand downward over a small herm standing at his feet, in a gesture of blessing or dedication. A partially preserved Latin colonial legend surrounds the figure, referencing the colonia Gemella Iulia Hadriana Pariana. The composition reflects the local cult of Cupid venerated at Parium. |
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Parion, the Roman colony on the southern Propontis shore, maintained an unusually persistent civic cult of Eros — inherited from its pre-colonial Greek identity and formalized under Roman rule into the epithet Deo Cupidini, a rare latinized divine address for the god on provincial bronze. The colony's full title, Colonia Gemella Iulia Hadriana Pariana, records successive layers of imperial patronage: Caesarian foundation, Augustan refoundation, and Hadrianic re-endowment, all compressed into a single legend that later die-cutters routinely abbreviated or broke across the flan.
The truncated legend on this piece — CoL GEM IVL HA[ — is characteristic of the type, not damage.