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AR22 - Hadrian ΑΜΙϹΟΥ ΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΑϹ ΕΤΟΥϹ ΡΞΘ

Issuer Amisus (Bithynia and Pontus)
Year 137-138
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Weight 5.12 g
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Obverse description Bare-headed, draped bust of Emperor Hadrian facing right, depicted from behind the shoulder in the characteristic Pontic provincial style. The emperor's curly hair and short beard are rendered in fine relief, consistent with his mature portrait type. The Greek imperial titulature legend runs around the periphery of the flan. The portrait exhibits the restrained classicizing style typical of eastern provincial civic coinage of the Hadrianic period.
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Reverse description Isis standing facing left in full figure upon a ground line, attired in a knotted garment, raising a sistrum in her right hand and holding a situla (ritual water bucket) in her lowered left hand. The goddess is rendered in a slender, frontal provincial style. The encircling Greek legend names the free city of Amisus and records the civic era date year 169 (ΡΞΘ), corresponding to 137–138 CE.
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