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Æ28 - Marcus Aurelius ΤΟΝ ΚΤΙϹΤΗΝ ΝΙΚΑΙΕΙϹ
| Issuer | Nicaea (Bithynia and Pontus) |
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| Year | 161-180 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse description | Laureate and cuirassed bust of Marcus Aurelius, draped with paludamentum over the left shoulder, facing right. The emperor is depicted with a bare or helmeted head (description uncertain), presented in the conventional provincial portrait style of the Antonine period. The obverse legend is disposed around the bust in Greek characters occupying the full circumference of the field. |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | Standing figure of Heracles, nude and bearded, turned to the right. The hero rests his right hand on his hip in a posture of ease, while his left arm bears the Nemean lion skin draped over it; his left hand rests upon his club, which is set upright on a rock at the lower right. The composition emphasises Heracles as a civic founder figure, consistent with the honorific reverse legend. The design is rendered in the provincial Greek style characteristic of Bithynian civic coinage of the Antonine era. |
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