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Æ25 - Antoninus Pius ΚΟΡΗ ΝΥϹΑΕΩΝ
| Issuer | Nysa (Conventus of Ephesus) |
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| Year | 139-146 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse lettering | ΑΥΤΟ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ ΑΔΡΙΑ ΑΝΤΩΝΕΙΝΟϹ |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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Nysa ad Maeandrum earned its double identity through civic pride and creative mythology: the city claimed to be the nursing ground of Dionysus, with the nymph Nysa raising the god in its territory. That claim gave local elites a prestigious theological pedigree to exploit on coinage, and the epithet ΝΥϹΑΕΩΝ on bronze issues of this period is a direct assertion of that Dionysiac connection — one the city leveraged aggressively in its rivalry with neighboring Tralles and Magnesia during the Antonine period.
Provincial bronze of this fabric was produced under civic magistrates rather than imperial mint control, with local boule authorization determining both timing and volume.