Æ33 - Antoninus Pius ΚΥΖΙΚΗΝΩΝ ΝΕΟΚΟΡΩΝ (Ζ shaped as エ)

Cyzicus held the title of neokoros — temple warden of the imperial cult — and this coin's legend advertises that status explicitly. The city earned its first neokorate under Hadrian, and the designation carried real civic and economic weight, marking Cyzicus as a center of Roman religious administration in Mysia. The unusual Ζ rendered with horizontal crossbars in the エ form is a regional ligature or engraver's quirk documented in a narrow range of Cyzicene bronzes from this reign, and its appearance here helps place this piece within a specific workshop tradition rather than a casual die-cutter's error.