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Æ30 - Antoninus Pius ΙΠΠΟΝ ΒΡΟΤΟΠΟΔΑ ΜΝΑ ΧΡΥϹΕΑ ΠΟΛΙϹ
| Issuer | Nicaea (Bithynia and Pontus) |
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| Year | 138-161 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse lettering | ΑΥΤ ΚΑΙ Τ ΑΙ(Λ) ΑΔΡ(Ι) ΑΝΤΩΝΙΝΟϹ (ϹΕ) (Translation: Emperor Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Nicaea's civic bronze coinage under Antoninus Pius belongs to a period when Bithynian cities competed aggressively through coin imagery to assert mythological prestige and secure imperial favor. The inscription ΙΠΠΟΝ ΒΡΟΤΟΠΟΔΑ ΜΝΑ ΧΡΥϹΕΑ ΠΟΛΙϹ — "the city of the golden mina of the horse with mortal feet" — is a direct quotation from Pindar's Olympian Odes, referencing the mythological horse Pegasus and Nicaea's claim to Hellenistic cultural authority. Few provincial bronzes cite lyric poetry so explicitly.