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Æ23 - Antoninus Pius ΖΕΥϹ ΑΚΡΑΙΟϹ ΜΑΓΝΗΤωΝ
| Issuer | Magnetes (Achaea) |
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| Year | 138-161 |
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| Reference(s) | RPC IV.1#1052 |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
| Reverse lettering | ΖΕΥϹ ΑΚΡΑΙΟϹ ΜΑΓΝΗΤωΝ (Translation: Zeus Acraeus of the Magnetes) |
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Zeus Akraios — Zeus of the mountain peaks — was a cult specific to the region around Mount Pelion in Thessaly, worshipped by the Magnetes as a distinctly local deity rather than the Panhellenic Olympian. The decision to invoke this epithet on a civic bronze under Antoninus Pius reflects the broader pattern of Greek provincial communities asserting regional religious identity through coinage at precisely the moment Roman administrative pressure toward cultural homogenization was most intense.