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Æ24 - Domitian COL A A PATR X XII
| Issuer | Patras (Achaea) |
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| Year | 85-86 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | COL A A PATR X XII (Translation: Augustan colony of Achaean Patras, 10th (and) 12th (legions)) |
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Patras held the status of a Roman colony — Colonia Aroe Augusta Patrensis — granted by Augustus himself, who resettled it with veterans after Actium in 31 BC. The colony sat just across the gulf from that battlefield, a deliberate piece of Augustan symbolism. By Domitian's reign, the local mint was issuing bronzes that leaned heavily on that colonial identity, invoking the Augustan foundation as a source of civic prestige at a moment when Domitian's relationship with the Greek provinces was complicated by his aggressive taxation and the expulsion of philosophers from Rome in 89 AD.