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Æ27 - Antoninus Pius ΚΥΖΙΚΗΝΩΝ ΝΕΟΚΟΡΩΝ (Ζ shaped as エ)
| Issuer | Cyzicus (Conventus of Cyzicus) |
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| Year | 147-161 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse lettering | ΦΑΥϹΤΕΙΝΑ ΝΕΑ ϹΕΒΑϹΤΗ |
| Reverse description | Nude Aphrodite standing facing, her head turned to the right, with both arms raised as she draws a sword-strap over her head. At her feet to the right, a helmet rests upon a short column alongside a shield, serving as martial attributes juxtaposed with the goddess's nude figure. The Greek legend ΚΥΖΙΚΗΝΩΝ ΝΕΟΚΟΡΩΝ encircles the type, with the zeta rendered in a distinctive エ-shaped form unique to Cyzicene coinage of this period. |
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Cyzicus held the title of neokoros — official keeper of an imperial cult temple — and by the mid-second century had accumulated multiple such honors, a fact this coin's legend advertises with civic pride. The unusual rendering of the zeta in ΝΕΟΚΟΡΩΝ, formed as a reversed or squared character resembling the Japanese katakana エ, is a die-cutter's idiosyncrasy rather than a scribal variant; it appears on a documented subset of issues from this mint and has been used as a die-identification marker in the specialist literature on Mysian bronzes.