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As - Antoninus Pius Aelia Capitolina
| Issuer | Aelia Capitolina |
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| Year | 138-161 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | ND (138-161) - Struck in Aelia Capitolina (Jerusalem) |
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Aelia Capitolina was Hadrian's colonial refoundation of Jerusalem, established around 130 AD on the ruins of the city razed after the First Jewish Revolt. The colony's own civic bronze coinage — struck under Roman colonial authority rather than the imperial mint — began under Hadrian and continued through Antoninus Pius. This piece belongs to that Antonine phase, when the colony was consolidating its identity as a Roman city while the memory of Bar Kokhba's revolt, crushed less than a decade before Pius came to power, was still raw.
RPC IV.3 #3614 places this among a small, well-documented group of colonial issues from the city.