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Æ25 - Marcus Aurelius ϹΕ ΑΒΙΛΗΝωΝ Ι Α Α Γ ΚΟΙ ϹΥ ΛϹ
| Issuer | Abila (Arabia) |
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| Year | 161-169 |
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| Weight | 10.47 g |
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| Obverse lettering | ΑΥΤ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ Λ ΑΥΡ ΟΥΗΡΟϹ (Translation: Emperor Caesar Lucius Aurelius Verus) |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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Abila of the Decapolis — not to be confused with Abila in Abilene further north — struck civic bronze throughout the Antonine period under the Seleucid-derived local era, which the legends on this type reference directly. The coin dates to the co-reign of Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus, Rome's first experiment with a formally shared imperial office, forced by Antoninus Pius's deathbed arrangements in 161 AD. Lucius Verus died in 169, which closes this window tightly.
The abbreviations in the legend encode the Pompeian era reckoning specific to the Decapolis cities, a calendrical quirk that still generates scholarly disagreement over precise date conversion.