Æ29 - Antoninus Pius ΗΡΑ ΖΕΥϹ ϹΤΡΑΤΗΓΟϹ ΑΜΑϹΤΡΙΑΝΩΝ

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.