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Æ25 - Marcus Aurelius ΚΟΙΝΟΝ ΜΑΚΕΔΟΝωΝ (facing inward)

Issuer Koinon of Macedonia (Roman province of Macedonia)
Year 161-180
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Composition Bronze
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Obverse script Greek
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The Koinon of Macedonia — a league of Macedonian cities permitted by Rome to issue bronze coinage in their own name — struck provincial bronzes throughout the imperial period as a carefully managed expression of regional identity within Roman administrative boundaries. Under Marcus Aurelius, the Koinon remained active, though the volume of its output was modest compared to the great eastern mints. The facing-inward die orientation noted in the reference is a positional variant catalogued within the Amandry-Burnett corpus, distinguishing it from the more common outward-facing arrangement on otherwise identical dies.

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