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Æ24 - Antoninus Pius ΚΙΛΒΙΑΝΩΝ ΠΕΡΙ ΝΕΙΚΕΑΝ
| Issuer | Nicaea Cilbianorum (Conventus of Ephesus) |
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| Year | 147-161 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | The river-god Kilbos depicted as a bearded, semi-recumbent male figure reclining to the left, his upper body raised and supported on a water-urn from which water flows, his right hand holding a reed. The figure is rendered in the classical Hellenistic tradition of personified river deities, nude to the waist. The ethnic legend of the issuing community encircles the field, reading ΚΙΛΒΙΑΝΩΝ ΠΕΡΙ ΝΕΙΚΕΑΝ. |
| Reverse script | Greek |
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Nicaea Cilbianorum was a small inland community in the Cayster River valley of Lydia, administratively grouped under the Conventus of Ephesus for Roman judicial and civic purposes. The ethnikon ΚΙΛΒΙΑΝΩΝ ΠΕΡΙ ΝΕΙΚΕΑΝ — "Nicaea among the Cilbiani" — was necessary to distinguish this settlement from the far more prominent Nicaea in Bithynia, a distinction the city's mint took seriously enough to stamp on virtually every issue it produced.
Bronze civic coinage from this region proliferated under Antoninus Pius as local elites competed for prestige through coin-funded euergetism. Few pieces from this mint survive outside major European institutional collections.