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Æ28 - Marcus Aurelius ϹΤΡΑ ΡοΥΦοΥ ΠΙοΝΕΙΤΩΝ
| Issuer | Pionia (Conventus of Adramyteum) |
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| Year | 169-175 |
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| Weight | 12.00 g |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Faustina II facing right, with elaborately waved and coiled hair, rendered in the typical Antonine court style. The portrait is set within a beaded border. The encircling legend reads ΦΑΥϹΤΕΙΝΑ ϹΕΒΑϹΤΗ, identifying the empress as Augusta. The bust exhibits drapery over the left shoulder, consistent with provincial honorific portraiture of the period. |
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| Reverse description | A male figure, possibly Apollo or the local hero Pionis, depicted on horseback moving to the left. To the left of the horse stands a tree entwined by a serpent, with the serpent's head turned to the right, a motif associated with healing or chthonic cults common in Mysian civic coinage. The field carries the magistrate's name and civic ethnic in the legend ϹΤΡΑ ΡοΥΦοΥ ΠΙοΝΕΙΤΩΝ, referencing the strategos Rufus and the people of Pionia. |
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| Mintage | ND (169-175) |
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