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AR18 - Nerva ΥΠΑΤΟΥ ΤΡΙΤΟΥ
| Issuer | Koinon of Lycia (Lycia et Pamphylia) |
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| Year | 97 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Laureate head of the emperor Nerva facing right, with finely rendered curly hair beneath the laurel wreath and a bare neck. The effigy is executed in a naturalistic provincial style characteristic of Lycian coinage of the Flavian-Nervan period. The circumferential Greek legend runs around the bust, with the Lycian monogram Λ-Υ (for Lykia) placed in the left and right fields respectively. A dotted border frames the entire design. |
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| Obverse lettering | ΑΥΤΟΚΡΑΤ ΝΕΡΟΥΑϹ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ ϹΕΒΑϹΤ, Λ-Υ (in field, l. and r.) |
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Nerva's third consulship, held in 97 AD, coincided with one of the most politically tense moments of his reign — the mutiny of the Praetorian Guard that forced him to adopt Trajan as his successor. Provincial issues dated by his consular titles rather than tribunician power are relatively uncommon, and Lycian cistophoric-weight fractions from this period reflect the koinon's continued operation under Roman oversight while retaining local dating conventions that Roman central mints had long abandoned.