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| Issuer | Nicaea (Bithynia and Pontus) |
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| Year | 217-218 |
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| Weight | 11.54 g |
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| Obverse description | Laureate bust of Emperor Macrinus facing right, depicted with short beard and draped paludamentum at the shoulder, rendered in the provincial style characteristic of Bithynian civic coinage. The portrait displays the characteristic broad laureate wreath with stylized leaves. The encircling Greek legend occupies the field around the bust, reading clockwise from the upper left. |
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| Obverse lettering | ΑΥΤ Κ Μ ΜΑΚΡΕΙΝΟϹ ΑΥΓ (Translation: Emperor Caesar Marcus [---] Macrinus Augustus) |
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| Reverse lettering | ΝΙΚΑΙΕΩΝ (Translation: of the Nicaeans) |
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