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AR21 - Hadrian ΑΜΙϹΟΥ ΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΑϹ ΕΤΟΥϹ ΡΞΓ
| Issuer | Amisus (Bithynia and Pontus) |
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| Year | 131-132 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Turreted Tyche, the personification of the city's fortune, seated left upon a throne, her right hand resting upon a rudder set atop her head, and her left arm supporting a large cornucopia, symbolising abundance and civic prosperity. The figure is rendered in the conventional Hellenistic tradition of civic goddess types common to Pontic coinage. The reverse legend surrounding the type identifies the issuing city and records the local civic era date corresponding to the year 163 of the Pontic era (131–132 CE). |
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| Mintage | ND (131-132) |
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Amisus had enjoyed the status of a free city — civitas libera — since Pompey reorganized Pontus in 65 BC, a privilege that granted it the right to mint its own coinage and manage local affairs without direct Roman administrative interference. The city's era dating system, reflected in the inscription ΡΞΓ (year 163), runs from approximately 31 BC, placing this issue squarely within Hadrian's extensive tour of the eastern provinces, during which he visited Bithynia and Pontus in 123 and again around 131.
The retention of Greek civic coinage under Hadrian was not incidental — he actively encouraged Hellenic municipal identity across the east.