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| Issuer | Amisus (Bithynia and Pontus) |
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| Year | 136-137 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Empress Sabina facing right, diademed, with hair elaborately arranged and falling in a long plait down the neck, a characteristic coiffure of the Hadrianic period. The portrait is rendered in the refined Greco-Roman provincial style, with fine facial features and detailed drapery visible at the shoulder. The encircling Greek legend ϹΑΒΕΙΝΑ ϹΕΒΑϹΤΗ ('Sabina Augusta') runs around the bust within a plain border. |
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| Obverse lettering | ϹΑΒΕΙΝΑ ϹΕΒΑϹΤΗ |
| Reverse description | Full-length standing figure of Demeter, draped and facing left, rendered in the classical tradition befitting a Pontic civic issue. She extends her right hand holding a patera in an offering gesture, while her left arm rests upon a tall torch set vertically beside her. The figure stands on a ground line within a dotted border, with the Greek civic legend ΑΜΙϹΟΥ ΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΑϹ ΕΤΟΥϹ ΡΞΗ ('Of free Amisus, year 168') distributed around the field. |
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