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Æ32 - Marcus Aurelius ΑΠΟΛΛΩΝΙΑΤΩΝ ΠΡΟϹ ΡΥΝΔΑΚΩ
| Issuer | Apollonia ad Rhyndacum (Conventus of Cyzicus) |
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| Year | 161-162 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Asclepius, the god of medicine, depicted standing facing in full figure, clad in a long himation draped over the lower body and left shoulder. In his right hand he holds a patera, and in his left hand he grasps the knotted serpent-staff (caduceus-staff of Asclepius), around which a serpent is entwined. The encircling Greek legend naming the city of Apollonia ad Rhyndacum frames the type within the coin's field. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Apollonia ad Rhyndacum issued this bronze in the first or second year of Marcus Aurelius's sole reign, following the death of Antoninus Pius in March 161. The city sat along the Rhyndacus River in Mysia and held sufficient civic standing within the Cyzicus conventus to produce its own bronze coinage — a privilege extended to select communities under Roman provincial administration rather than granted automatically.
The full ethnic ΑΠΟΛΛΩΝΙΑΤΩΝ ΠΡΟϹ ΡΥΝΔΑΚΩ distinguishes it from the Illyrian Apollonia, an important disambiguation in the cataloging tradition going back to Mionnet.