Æ34 - Elagabalus ΑΜΙϹΟΥ ΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΑϹ ΕΤ ϹΝΓ

Amisus was one of the few cities in Pontus that retained the status of a free city — *eleuthera* — a privilege granted under Pompey's reorganization of the region in 64 BC and jealously maintained through successive imperial administrations. The civic era date ϹΝΓ (253) used on this piece anchors it to 221–222 AD, the final year of Elagabalus's reign before his murder by the Praetorian Guard in March 222. The city's insistence on marking its own continuous era alongside the reigning emperor's name was itself a quiet assertion of institutional memory stretching back to the Republic.