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Æ28 - Septimius Severus C I F SINOP ANN CCLII
| Issuer | Sinope (Bithynia and Pontus) |
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| Year | 206-207 |
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| Weight | 11.05 g |
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| Reverse description | Sarapis standing facing, head turned to the left, his right hand raised in a gesture of benediction and holding a long transverse sceptre in his left hand. The deity is depicted in his characteristic syncretic form, wearing a modius (kalathos) atop his head, reflecting the Alexandrian religious influence prevalent in Pontic civic coinage. The reverse legend C I F SINOP ANN CCLII encircles the field, citing the colonia's name and its era date of year 252, corresponding to 206–207 AD. |
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| Mint | Sinope, Paphlagonia, modern-day Sinop, Turkey |
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The legend C I F SINOP — Colonia Iulia Felix Sinope — records the city's colonial status granted under Julius Caesar, making Sinope one of the earliest Roman colonies in the Black Sea region. The date ANN CCLII, year 252 of the Sinopean colonial era, anchors this coin precisely to 206–207 AD under Severus. Colonial era dating of this specificity is unusual for provincial bronze and gives the series exceptional chronological precision rarely matched in contemporary civic issues.