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Æ33 - Hadrian AVG COL CRE
| Issuer | Cremna (Galatia) |
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| Year | 117-138 |
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| Reference(s) | RPC Online III#2805 |
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| Reverse description | Full-length figure of Augustus as founder, standing left and guiding a yoke of two oxen walking right, in the traditional Roman act of sulcus primigenius — the ceremonial ploughing of the sacred boundary furrow marking the foundation of a Roman colony. The founder is depicted in military dress, leaning forward as he drives the plow. The Latin colonial legend AVG COL CRE is distributed around the field. The composition reflects standard Roman colonial foundation iconography widely employed on Pisidian civic bronze issues. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Cremna was a Roman veteran colony in Pisidia — the attribution to Galatia is a longstanding catalog convenience that obscures the city's actual administrative history. Founded under Augustus for discharged soldiers, the colony retained strong ties to its military origins, and locally struck bronze of this size served civic rather than imperial purposes, circulating within the colony's own economic orbit. Hadrian visited the region during his extensive eastern tours of the 120s, and his presence likely stimulated precisely this kind of honorific civic coinage.
RPC III 2805 is documented from a small number of specimens, making die study difficult.