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Æ31 - Antoninus Pius ΜΑΙΑΝΔΡΟϹ ΤΡΙΠΟΛΕΙΤΩΝ (Ρs shaped as Þ)
| Issuer | Tripolis ad Maeander, Lydia (Roman Provincial mint) |
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| Year | 139-146 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse lettering | ΜΑΙΑΝΔΡΟϹ ΤΡΙΠΟΛΕΙΤΩΝ (Ρs shaped as Þ) |
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Tripolis on the Maeander was a minor Lydian city whose civic coinage under Antoninus Pius reflects the broader explosion of Greek Imperial bronze production that accompanied his reign — a period of unusual provincial autonomy in which dozens of small Asian cities struck coins not out of economic necessity but civic pride and elite patronage. The spelling variant in the ethnic legend, with rho formed as a thorn-like character, is a regional orthographic quirk documented across a handful of Tripolitean issues and useful for die-linking studies.