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Æ33 - Marcus Aurelius ΕΠΙ ΑΡΧ ΑΙΛ ΖΩΙΛ Β ΑΒΥΔΗ
| Issuer | Abydus (Conventus of Adramyteum) |
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| Year | 177-179 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Abydus, positioned at the narrowest crossing of the Hellespont, retained civic coinage rights under Roman administration largely because of its continued strategic value as a transit point between Europe and Asia. The magistrate named in this issue — Aelius Zoilus, serving a second term as archon — is attested on only a handful of known specimens, making his tenure datable almost exclusively through numismatic evidence. The years 177–179 coincide with Marcus Aurelius elevating Commodus to co-emperor, a political event that prompted renewed honorific coinage across Asia Minor's civic mints.