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Æ26 - Titus ΑΥΓΟΥϹΤΑΝΩΝ ΕΤΟΥϹ ΞΑ
| Issuer | Augusta (Cilicia) |
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| Year | 80-81 |
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| Weight | 11.93 g |
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| Obverse description | Bare laureate head of Domitian as Caesar facing right, with naturalistic portraiture typical of Flavian provincial coinage. The neck is truncated, and the effigy is rendered in moderate relief consistent with local Cilician mint workmanship. A Greek legend encircles the portrait along the periphery of the flan, identifying the subject as ΔΟΜΕΤΙΑΝΟϹ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ. The flan is somewhat irregular, as is characteristic of hammered provincial bronze issues of this period. |
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| Reverse description | Draped bust of Dionysus facing right, adorned with ivy wreath and holding a thyrsus over the shoulder, rendered in the local Cilician provincial style. The figure is depicted with characteristic Dionysiac attributes, reflecting the deity's prominence in the religious life of Augusta Ciliciae. A two-line Greek legend filling the field and periphery records the civic name of the issuing city along with a regnal year. The reverse legend reads ΑΥΓΟΥϹΤΑΝΩΝ ΕΤΟΥϹ ΞΑ, indicating year 61 of the local civic era, corresponding to AD 80-81 under the reign of Titus. |
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The civic era date encoded in the legend — year 61, corresponding to 80–81 AD — places this issue squarely in Titus's brief two-year reign. Augusta in Cilicia was one of dozens of eastern civic mints that struck bronze for local circulation under imperial authority, and the specific era reckoning used here anchors the coin to the city's own foundation chronology rather than to any imperial dating system. Titus died in September 81, making year-61 issues the last this mint would produce under his name.