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Æ29 - Trajan Decius ϹΑΜΙΩΝ
| Issuer | Samos (Conventus of Miletus) |
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| Year | 249-251 |
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| Diameter | 29 mm |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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| Mint | Samos |
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Trajan Decius ruled for barely two years before dying at the Battle of Abrittus in 251 AD — the first Roman emperor killed in war against a foreign enemy. Provincial bronzes struck in his name are consequently scarce across the board, and Samian issues are among the thinner series, with the island's civic coinage having already contracted sharply by the mid-third century as the broader Greek imperial bronze tradition wound down.
Samos fell under the Conventus of Miletus for administrative purposes, meaning judicial and monetary oversight ran through that city rather than directly through Ephesus.