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Æ26 - Elagabalus ΚΥΖΙΚΗΝΩΝ ΝΕΟΚ (Ρ (Ω)

Issuer Cyzicus (Conventus of Cyzicus)
Year 218-222
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Technique Hammered
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Obverse script Greek
Obverse lettering ΑΥ ΚΑΙ Μ ΑΥΡΗ ΑΝΤΩΝΕΙΝΟϹ
(Translation: Emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus)
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Additional information

Cyzicus held the title of neokoros — temple warden of the imperial cult — multiple times, and the inclusion of that honorific in the legend was a point of civic pride fiercely contested among the great cities of Asia Minor. The abbreviation ΝΕΟΚ on this bronze reflects a status formally granted by the senate in Rome, not simply assumed, making the legend itself a political document compressed into a few letters.

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