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Æ25 - Antoninus Pius C L I CoR

Issuer Corinth (Achaea)
Year 138-161
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Weight 11.57 g
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Reverse script Latin
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Mintage ND (138-161)
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Corinth's colonial status under Rome gave its civic bronze issues a distinctive administrative character — the abbreviation C L I COR (Colonia Laus Iulia Corinthiensis) was not decorative shorthand but the formal legal designation of a city that had been refounded by Julius Caesar in 44 BC, nearly a century after Lucius Mummius razed the Greek original. The Caesarian colony displaced the ruins entirely, and its coinage consistently advertised that Roman lineage rather than any connection to the classical Greek past.

Provincial bronzes of this type were struck locally under civic authority, not imperial mint control.

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