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Æ26 - Caracalla ΚΙΑΝΩΝ
| Issuer | Cius (Bithynia and Pontus) |
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| Year | 198-217 |
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| Diameter | 26 mm |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Julia Domna facing right, her elaborately coiffed hair arranged in the characteristic Severan style with multiple horizontal ridges and waves drawn back into a bun, with a jewelled stephane visible atop the head. The empress is depicted with finely rendered facial features, wearing a draped garment. The Greek legend ΙΟΥΛΙΑ ΑΥΓΟΥϹΤΑ runs around the periphery of the field. |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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Cius, the Bithynian port city on the Propontis, was refounded and renamed Prusias ad Mare by the Bithynian king Prusias I around 202 BC — yet civic coinage from the imperial period stubbornly retained the old ethnic ΚΙΑΝΩΝ, a quiet assertion of local identity that Rome had no particular reason to suppress. Provincial bronze of this type circulated almost exclusively within the immediate region, functioning as small-denomination civic currency while the imperial silver handled longer-distance trade.
Caracalla's long co-reign with Septimius Severus beginning in 198 AD accounts for the broad date range assigned to this issue.