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Æ28 - Marcus Aurelius C I F SINOPE A (N) CCVII (V shaped as U)
| Issuer | Sinope (Bithynia and Pontus) |
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| Year | 161-169 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse lettering | IMP AVREL AN VERo AVG (Vs shaped as U) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Sinope, the Black Sea colony founded by Miletus, had been a Roman colonia since Julius Caesar's resettlement of it in 45 BC — one of his last colonial foundations before his assassination. The city retained its colonial dating era from that refoundation, making the CCVII figure in the legend a consular year calculable from 45 BC. That places this coin squarely in the co-reign of Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus, when the eastern empire was stretched thin by the Parthian War and a devastating plague the returning troops carried back through Anatolia.