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Æ40 - Marcus Aurelius ΠΡΟΥϹΙΕΩΝ ΠΡΟϹ ΥΠΙΩ
| Issuer | Prusias ad Hypium (Bithynia and Pontus) |
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| Year | 164-169 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | Heracles standing nude, facing, with head turned to the left, his right arm resting on a grounded club set to his side, and his left hand holding the Nemean lion skin draped over his arm. The figure is rendered in the classical Hellenistic tradition common to Bithynian provincial bronzes, occupying the full field of the flan. The ethnic legend of the issuing city is distributed in the field around the deity. |
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Prusias ad Hypium — modern Konuralp in northwestern Turkey — was a Bithynian city whose civic coinage under Marcus Aurelius coincided almost exactly with the Antonine Plague, the devastating epidemic carried back from the Parthian campaigns that killed an estimated five million people across the empire between 165 and 180 AD. Provincial bronze of this size and weight was expensive to produce relative to its face value, which is part of why large-module civic issues from Bithynian mints during this decade survive in such small numbers — disrupted trade and depopulation hit civic mint output hard.