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Æ26- Caracalla YΠ KYNTIΛIANOY MAΡKIANOΠOΛITΩN, Magistrate Quintillianus, Marcianopolis
| Issuer | Marcianopolis |
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| Year | 211-217 |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | An eagle stands facing on a garlanded altar, its head turned to the left and wings spread wide in a heraldic posture. The altar is depicted with garlands draped across its front face, rendered in low relief. The entire composition is enclosed by a continuous Greek legend reading around the periphery within a beaded border, citing the name and title of the regional magistrate Quintillianus and the civic ethnic of Marcianopolis. |
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Marcianopolis, founded by Trajan and named for his sister Marciana, became one of the principal cities of Moesia Inferior and held the right to strike bronze civic coinage under Roman imperial authority. The magistrate name ΚΥΝΤΙΛΙΑΝΟΣ appears across a cluster of issues tied to Caracalla's reign, suggesting a tenure that spanned several emissions rather than a single year — useful context for sequencing varieties within this series. AMNG I-I#645 places this piece within a well-documented but physically scarce group; von Pick's original corpus identified multiple die linkages across the Quintillianus issues that collectors and specialists still use to attribute strays.