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Æ32 - Marcus Aurelius ΕΠΙ ϹΤΡΑ ΜΙΛΩΝΟϹ ΤΟ Β ΝΑΚΡΑϹΕ[?
| Issuer | Nacrasa (Conventus of Pergamum) |
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| Year | 161-163 |
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| Diameter | 32 mm |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed bust of Lucius Verus, draped and cuirassed, facing right with the paludamentum visible over the left shoulder, presented from a frontal perspective. The imperial effigy is rendered in the naturalistic Antonine style characteristic of provincial bronze coinage. A Greek legend encircles the bust in the field. |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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Nacrasa was a minor Lydian city of little political weight, and its coins are rare enough that the civic magistrate series remains poorly catalogued. The inscription ΤΟ Β — indicating Milon's second term as strategos — is one of the few datable anchors in the city's numismatic record. The bracketed final letters of the ethnic suggest this example's legend is partially illegible, consistent with the thin, uneven flans characteristic of Nacrasen output. The dating to 161–163 places it within the first years of Marcus Aurelius's reign, before his co-emperor Lucius Verus departed for the Parthian campaign.