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Æ26 C VIBI L PONTI IIVIR C F I
| Issuer | Roman Colony of Sinope |
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| Year | 45 BC - 40 BC |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A decorated crescent, its horns pointing upward and its body adorned with a central floral or rosette ornament, arches above a Roman plostellum poenicum (a type of threshing sledge or plough), depicted in profile facing left with its characteristic toothed underside clearly rendered. The plough is a well-known colonial symbol of Sinope's Roman refoundation under Julius Caesar. The encircling Latin legend C VIBI L PONTI IIVIR C F I names the duoviri magistrates of the colony in the nominative case. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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