Argos was among the oldest continuously minted cities in the Greek world, but civic bronze coinage under the Antonines was never guaranteed — it required local initiative, municipal funds, and at least tacit imperial approval. The Argive issues of this period are poorly documented in terms of surviving dies, and the reference corpus remains thin relative to the output of more studied Achaean cities like Corinth.
The magistrate responsible for authorizing this strike is unrecorded, which is not unusual for Argos in this phase.
Argos was among the oldest continuously minted cities in the Greek world, but civic bronze coinage under the Antonines was never guaranteed — it required local initiative, municipal funds, and at least tacit imperial approval. The Argive issues of this period are poorly documented in terms of surviving dies, and the reference corpus remains thin relative to the output of more studied Achaean cities like Corinth.
The magistrate responsible for authorizing this strike is unrecorded, which is not unusual for Argos in this phase.