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Æ29 - Antoninus Pius ΗΡΑ ΖΕΥϹ ϹΤΡΑΤΗΓΟϹ ΑΜΑϹΤΡΙΑΝΩΝ
| Issuer | Amastris (Bithynia and Pontus) |
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| Year | 138-161 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed, draped and cuirassed bust of Antoninus Pius facing right, with the paludamentum visible over the left shoulder. The emperor's portrait is rendered in the typical provincial style, with naturalistic facial features and layered hair. The circumferential Greek legend runs around the periphery of the field. The flan shows the characteristic irregular fabric of provincial bronze coinage struck at Amastris. |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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Amastris, a coastal city on the Black Sea founded by the niece of Darius III and later absorbed into the Bithynian kingdom, retained a fierce civic pride in its own divine pantheon well into the imperial period. The title ϹΤΡΑΤΗΓΟϹ — "strategos," a civic magistrate — appearing alongside Zeus points to a local honorific tradition in which the city's chief deity was cast as a presiding military official, a formula specific to Amastrian civic coinage rather than any imperial directive. The cult title ΗΡΑΣ ΖΕΥΣ remains poorly documented outside this series, suggesting a genuinely local theological formulation.