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Æ25 - Marcus Aurelius ΜΕΓΑΡΕΩΝ
| Issuer | Megara (Achaea) |
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| Year | 161-180 |
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| Weight | 9.05 g |
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| Obverse lettering | ΑΥ ΚΑΙ Μ ΑΥΡ ΑΝΤωΝΕΙΝΟϹ (Translation: Emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus) |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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Megara's civic bronze issues of the Antonine period reflect the city's diminished but persistent identity — once a founding metropolis of Byzantium and Chalcedon, by the second century AD it had long been overshadowed by Corinth and Athens. The city retained the right to strike local bronze under Roman imperial authority, and coins naming Marcus Aurelius place production within his co-reign with Lucius Verus or his sole reign after 169 AD.
The BCD collection reference system (IV.1#7863) situates this among the systematic Lanz auction cataloging of Peloponnesian civic bronzes — one of the few comprehensive treatments of Megarian numismatic output.