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Æ26 - Antoninus Pius C L I COR
| Issuer | Corinth (Achaea) |
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| Year | 138-161 |
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| Reference(s) | RPC IV.1#7871 |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Victoria (Nike) standing facing, with head turned to the right, depicted in a frontal pose in the provincial Roman artistic tradition. She holds in one hand what appears to be a staff or uncertain object, and in the other a palm branch, symbols of victory. The colonial abbreviation legend is distributed in the field around the figure. The reverse type reflects the Roman colonial identity of Corinth and its celebration of imperial victory. |
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Corinth's bronze coinage under Antoninus Pius belongs to the revival of Greek-style civic issues that flourished when the emperor's broadly philhellenic administration gave provincial cities renewed latitude to mint. Corinth — refounded as a Roman colony by Julius Caesar in 44 BC and long one of the wealthiest ports in the eastern Mediterranean — maintained a distinct colonial identity in its bronzes, blending Latin titulature with local Peloponnesian civic pride. The abbreviation C L I COR reads out the colony's full title: Colonia Laus Iulia Corinthiensis.
BCD Peloponnesos IV.1 #7871 places this piece within a well-documented sequence, though die matches across the Antonine Corinthian series remain an active area of study.