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Æ25 - Hadrian ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙΩΝ ΕΠΙ ΔΗΜΗΤΡΟϹ, ΤΟ Β (in centre)
| Issuer | Byzantium (Thracia) |
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| Year | 117-138 |
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| Weight | 9.45 g |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Sabina, Augusta and wife of Hadrian, facing right, with diadem adorning her hair in the elaborately arranged Hadrianic court style. The legend surrounding the effigy identifies her as Augusta Sabina in Greek characters. The portraiture is executed in the provincial style characteristic of Thracian civic coinage of the early second century AD. |
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| Obverse lettering | ϹΕΒΑϹΤΗΝ ϹΑΒΕΙΝΑΝ |
| Reverse description | Two tunny fish (thunnos) depicted swimming horizontally in opposite directions, one above the other, rendered in a bold, schematic style typical of Byzantion civic coinage; the tunny being a celebrated symbol of the city's prosperity derived from the Black Sea fishing trade. The central field bears the magistrate's mark ΤΟ·Β, indicating a second issue under the eponymous magistrate Demetrios, with the encircling civic legend naming the issuing authority of Byzantion. |
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