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Diassarion - Sabina Augusta ΒΙΖΥΗΝΩΝ
| Issuer | Bizya |
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| Year | 128-137 |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Sabina Augusta facing right, her hair elaborately coiffed and secured with a diadem, rendered in the refined portraiture style characteristic of Hadrianic-era provincial coinage. The effigy displays fine drapery folds at the truncation. The Greek legend ϹΑΒΙΝΑ ϹΕΒΑϹΤΗ encircles the bust, identifying the empress by her title Augusta. |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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Bizya, located in Thrace near the modern Turkish town of Vize, served as a royal seat of the Astean kings before its absorption into the Roman provincial system. Its civic coinage under Sabina reflects the relatively narrow window during which she held the Augusta title — conferred in 128 AD — and before her death, likely in 136 or 137. The city's issues for Sabina are scarce; Bizya was not a prolific mint, and its bronze output under Hadrian's reign is thinly documented compared to larger Thracian centers like Philippopolis or Anchialos.