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Æ23 - Trajan ΑΜΙϹΟΥ ΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΑϹ ΕΤΟΥϹ ΡΚΘ
| Issuer | Amisus (Bithynia and Pontus) |
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| Year | 98 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse description | Nike advancing to the left, rendered in high relief in the Hellenistic tradition, holding a victor's wreath extended in her raised right hand and a tall palm branch resting on her left shoulder. The winged goddess is depicted in flowing drapery, her wings partially spread. The Greek legend ΘΕΟΥ ϹΕΒΑϹΤΟΥ ΤΡΑΙΑΝΟΥ is disposed around the field, invoking the divine epithet of the deified emperor Trajan. |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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Amisus held the rare status of a free city — eleuthera — under Roman administration, a privilege retained from earlier Pontic and Roman Republican arrangements that allowed it to strike civic bronze in its own name rather than under imperial authority. The date ΡΚΘ, year 129 of the Amisene civic era, places this issue at the very opening of Trajan's reign, likely minted to acknowledge the new emperor while the city conspicuously foregrounded its own autonomous dating system rather than his regnal years.