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Æ24 - Marcus Aurelius ΕΠ ΓΡ ΑϹΙΑΤΙΚΟΥ ΚΟΡΝΗ ΝΥϹΑΕΩΝ
| Issuer | Nysa (Conventus of Ephesus) |
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| Year | 161-163 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Faustina II facing right, her hair elaborately waved and drawn up into a bun at the back of the head, rendered in typical Antonine imperial portrait style. The effigy is set within a circular field bounded by a plain or dotted border, now heavily worn. The Greek legend ΦΑΥϹΤΕΙΝΑ ϹΕΒΑϹΤΗ ('Faustina Augusta') runs around the periphery, identifying the empress as consort of Marcus Aurelius. The flan is irregular and the surfaces show significant patination and encrustation consistent with prolonged burial. |
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| Reverse description | A male deity — most likely Hades/Pluto, though possibly Zeus — is depicted seated to the left on a throne or high-backed chair, his body turned in three-quarter view. He extends his right hand holding a patera in the act of libation, while his left hand grasps a tall sceptre or long staff rising vertically behind him. The figure is rendered in the Hellenistic-influenced civic coinage style characteristic of Lydian mints under the Antonines. The Greek legend ΕΠ ΓΡ ΑϹΙΑΤΙΚΟΥ ΚΟΡΝΗ ΝΥϹΑΕΩΝ, naming the magistrate Asiatikos Kornes and the civic ethnic of the Nysaeans, is distributed around the field, largely obscured by wear and corrosion. |
| Reverse script | Greek |
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