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Æ27 - Domitian ΤΟΝ ΚΤΙΣ (Ε)ΙΚΑΕΙΣ ΠΡΩΤΟΙ ΠΟΝΤ ΚΑΙ ΒΙΘ
| Issuer | Nicaea (Bithynia and Pontus) |
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| Year | 81-96 |
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| Diameter | 27 mm |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | Dionysus, the mythological founder associated with Nicaea, depicted standing to the left upon an elephant head, a distinctive iconographic type emblematic of the city's Dionysiac foundation legend. The deity holds a cantharus (wine cup) in the outstretched right hand and a thyrsus (ivy-tipped staff) in the left. The figure is rendered in flowing drapery in the Hellenistic tradition. A continuous circular Greek legend encircles the type, asserting the civic primacy of Nicaea within the province of Pontus and Bithynia. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΤΟΝ ΚΤΙΣ Ν(Ε)ΙΚΑΕΙΣ ΠΡΩΤΟΙ ΠΟΝΤ ΚΑΙ ΒΙΘ (Translation: the Nicaeans, the first of Pontus and Bithynia, (honour) the founder) |
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