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Æ25 - Marcus Aurelius ΕΚΤΩΡ ΙΛΙΕΩΝ
| Issuer | Ilium (Conventus of Adramyteum) |
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| Year | 161-162 |
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| Diameter | 25 mm |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Faustina II facing right, her hair elaborately waved and drawn back in the characteristic Antonine style, enclosed within a beaded border. The empress is depicted with refined portraiture typical of provincial Greek civic coinage of the Antonine period. The Greek legend ΦΑΥϹΤΙΝΑ ΑΥΓ ϹΕΒΑϹ (Faustina Augusta Sebastē) surrounds the effigy. |
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| Mintage | ND (161-162) |
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Ilium — the city built atop the ruins of ancient Troy — leveraged its mythological heritage aggressively under Roman rule, issuing civic bronzes that emphasized Trojan ancestry as a form of civic prestige. When Marcus Aurelius acceded in 161 AD, the city marked the occasion with issues invoking Hector, the greatest of Troy's defenders, a deliberate alignment of imperial renewal with the city's foundational myth. The gesture carried political weight: Julius Caesar had visited the site, and the Julian gens claimed Trojan descent through Aeneas.
The conventus of Adramyteum administered a stretch of the Troad where local identity and Roman ambition ran in close parallel.