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Æ27 - Philip I ΝΙΚΑΙΩΝ ΑΥΓΟΥϹΤΙΑ ϹΕΥΗΡΙΑ
| Issuer | Nicaea (Bithynia and Pontus) |
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| Year | 244-249 |
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| Weight | 11.27 g |
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| Obverse description | Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Philip I facing right, presented in three-quarter rear view, with the paludamentum visible over the left shoulder and the scales of the cuirass rendered in fine detail. The emperor's portrait is modelled in the characteristic robust style of mid-third-century provincial coinage, with a strong jawline and short-cropped hair beneath the laurel wreath. The Greek legend encircles the effigy in the field around the periphery of the flan. |
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| Mintage | ND (244-249) |
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Nicaea's civic bronze coinage under Philip I leaned heavily into honorific titulature — the ΑΥΓΟΥϹΤΙΑ ϹΕΥΗΡΙΑ in the legend references the city's Augustan and Severan games, festival titles Nicaea had accumulated over generations of imperial favor. The city was among the wealthiest and most politically competitive in Bithynia, locked in a long rivalry with Nicomedia over which held primacy in the province — a dispute that produced increasingly elaborate civic coin legends as each city jockeyed for imperial recognition.