Æ25 - Marcus Aurelius C L I COR

Corinth's status as a Roman colony — refounded by Julius Caesar in 44 BC after a century of enforced abandonment — gave its civic coinage a particular character distinct from the Greek poleis around it. The colonists struck in Latin, not Greek, and organised their bronze issues through local duoviri magistrates rather than civic treasury officials, a practice that persisted well into the Antonine period. This piece falls within Marcus Aurelius's joint reign with Lucius Verus, though attributing it precisely within those nineteen years without magistrate dating is not possible.