The retrograde legend on this issue — ΡϘΕ reading right to left — is almost certainly an engraver's error rather than intentional convention, a slip that slipped through quality control and into circulation regardless. Amisus, a major Black Sea port with a long history of civic coinage, produced provincial bronzes under Roman oversight but with considerable local latitude in die preparation, which is precisely how such an uncorrected blunder survives on an official civic issue.
The date ΡϘΕ corresponds to the local Amisene era, placing this squarely in the early co-reign of Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus.
The retrograde legend on this issue — ΡϘΕ reading right to left — is almost certainly an engraver's error rather than intentional convention, a slip that slipped through quality control and into circulation regardless. Amisus, a major Black Sea port with a long history of civic coinage, produced provincial bronzes under Roman oversight but with considerable local latitude in die preparation, which is precisely how such an uncorrected blunder survives on an official civic issue.
The date ΡϘΕ corresponds to the local Amisene era, placing this squarely in the early co-reign of Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus.