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Æ34 - Marcus Aurelius ΙΛΙΕΩΝ
| Issuer | Mint of Ilium |
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| Year | 161-162 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Aeneas, the Trojan hero and legendary ancestor of Rome, striding right with head turned back to the left, depicted in the act of flight from Troy: he leads his young son Ascanius by the hand at lower left while carrying his aged father Anchises upon his left shoulder. The composition alludes directly to Ilium's Trojan heritage and civic pride. The ethnic legend ΙΛΙΕΩΝ appears in the field. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΙΛΙΕΩΝ |
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Ilium — the city built atop the ruins of ancient Troy — held a uniquely charged political relationship with Rome, and emperors actively cultivated it. When Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus jointly assumed power in 161 AD, civic mints across Asia Minor rushed to issue bronzes acknowledging the new rulers. Ilium's issues carried particular ideological weight: Rome traced its founding lineage through Aeneas directly to this city, making imperial recognition from Ilium's mint something closer to ancestral homage than routine provincial coinage.
The 161–162 dating places this piece within the first year of that joint reign — one of the more precisely datable windows in provincial bronze production.