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Æ27 - Trajan ΘΕϹϹΑΛΟΝΙΚΕωΝ
| Issuer | Mint of Thessalonica (Roman Provincial) |
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| Year | 98-103 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | Nike, the goddess of victory, depicted in full figure advancing to the left, clad in a flowing chiton with large spread wings visible behind her. She holds a wreath extended in her right hand and a palm branch in her left hand, both attributes emblematic of triumph and victory. A crescent symbol appears in the left field. The ethnic legend ΘΕϹϹΑΛΟΝΙΚΕωΝ is inscribed along the left periphery, identifying the issuing city of Thessalonica. |
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Thessalonica held the status of a free city within Macedonia, a privilege that granted it the right to strike its own bronze coinage — an autonomy jealously maintained and periodically renegotiated with Rome. Issues under Trajan fall within the first years of his reign, coinciding with the Dacian Wars that consumed Roman military and financial attention between 101 and 106 AD. The city's mint was active precisely because local bronze filled a gap that Rome's central mints had no interest in covering at this scale and distance.
The spelling ΘΕϹϹΑΛΟΝΙΚΕωΝ — with the lunate sigma — is characteristic of provincial Greek epigraphy from this period in Macedonia.