Æ23 - Trajan ΑΜΙϹΟΥ ΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΑϹ ΕΤΟΥϹ ΡΚΘ

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.