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Æ27 - Antoninus Pius ΚΥΖΙΚΗΝΩΝ ΝΕΟΚΟΡΩΝ (Ζ reversed)
| Issuer | Cyzicus (Conventus of Cyzicus) |
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| Year | 147-169 |
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| Weight | 13.45 g |
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| Obverse description | Bare, diademed head of the youthful hero-founder Kyzikos facing right, rendered in the Hellenistic tradition with fine facial features and a plain diadem binding the hair. The portrait occupies the central field, with the abbreviated Greek legend disposed around the periphery. A notable die peculiarity is the reversed zeta (Ζ) in the inscription, a known variety on civic bronzes of this mint. The flan is somewhat irregular, consistent with provincial hammered coinage of the Antonine period. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Cyzicus held the title of neokoros — temple warden of the imperial cult — and the boast appears here in the legend, likely added or emphasized following Hadrian's formalization of the city's cultic status. The reversed Ζ in ΝΕΟΚΟΡΩΝ is not a die-cutter's error in the modern sense; Greek bronze provincial dies were often cut by local craftsmen with inconsistent epigraphic training, and reversed or mirrored letters appear with enough regularity in Mysian bronzes to constitute a recognized variety rather than an anomaly.