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Æ23 - Elagabalus ΤΙΑΝΩΝ
| Issuer | Tium (Bithynia and Pontus) |
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| Year | 218-222 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse lettering | Μ ΑΥΡ ΑΝΤΩΝΙΝΟϹ ΑΥΓ (Translation: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus) |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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Tium was a minor Bithynian coastal city whose civic coinage under Elagabalus reflects the broader pattern of provincial mints leveraging imperial accession to assert local identity — the city's ethnic ΤΙΑΝΩΝ marking it as a rare issuer even within the relatively well-documented Bithynian series. Elagabalus himself reigned just four years before the Praetorian Guard murdered him at eighteen, his mother Julia Soaemias killed alongside him.
The reference VI#3581 places this within the Waddington-based classification of Pontic and Bithynian bronzes, a cataloguing tradition that still leaves numerous Tian issues inadequately documented by modern die-study standards.