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Æ29 - Marcus Aurelius ΑΠΟΛΛΩΝΙΑΤΩΝ
| Issuer | Apollonia ad Rhyndacum (Conventus of Cyzicus) |
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| Year | 169-175 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Reverse description | Nude standing figure of Poseidon facing left, depicted in full-length in the classical contrapposto tradition of provincial Mysian coinage. The god extends his right arm forward holding a dolphin, while his left arm holds a hippocamp, both attributes emblematic of his dominion over the sea. The encircling Greek ethnic legend ΑΠΟΛΛΩΝΙΑΤΩΝ (of the Apolloniatans) runs around the field, referencing the issuing city of Apollonia ad Rhyndacum. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Apollonia ad Rhyndacum, seated on the Rhyndacus river in Mysia, was a minor but administratively recognized city within the Cyzicene conventus — the judicial assize district centered on Cyzicus. The dating to 169–175 places this issue squarely within the co-reign of Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus, then Marcus alone after Verus died in 169, while the empire was simultaneously absorbing the catastrophic Antonine Plague and sustaining pressure on the Danubian frontier.
Provincial bronze of this city is thinly documented in the major corpora, and die linkage studies for Apollonia ad Rhyndacum remain incomplete.