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Æ27 - Macrinus ΝΙΚΑΙΕΩΝ
| Issuer | Nicaea (Bithynia and Pontus) |
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| Year | 217-218 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse description | Laureate and cuirassed bust of Emperor Macrinus facing right, depicted frontally with paludamentum visible at the shoulder. The effigy shows the emperor in full military dress, the cuirass rendered with characteristic provincial engraving style. A circular Greek legend surrounds the bust in the field, running from left to right along the coin's periphery. The portrait style is consistent with Bithynian provincial bronze coinage of the early third century AD. |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | Athena standing facing with head turned to the left, her right hand extending forward to hold the palladium, a small statuette of the armed goddess. Her left arm rests upon a long oval shield set upon a globe, and she holds a transverse sceptre in her left hand. The figure is rendered in the typical standing frontal pose favoured in Bithynian civic coinage, with drapery falling to the feet. The ethnic legend ΝΙΚΑΙΕΩΝ appears in the field, identifying the issuing city of Nicaea. |
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