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Æ24 - Marcus Aurelius ΑΡΓΕΙΩΝ
| Issuer | Argos (Achaea) |
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| Year | 161-169 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Argos maintained the right to strike civic bronze under the early Antonines largely through its status as one of the oldest and most symbolically loaded cities in Greece — a prestige the Romans found useful to honor even as the polis itself had been economically marginal for centuries. The ethnic ΑΡΓΕΙΩΝ on this issue is a deliberate assertion of civic identity, one Argos clung to with notable tenacity in its local coinage through the second century.
The reference IV.1#3454 places this within the RPC Online corpus for the period 161–169, the first years of Marcus Aurelius's sole reign before Lucius Verus's death in 169.