Tetradrachm - Nerva

Nerva's reign lasted just sixteen months, and the Antiochene mint wasted little time — this tetradrachm falls within his final year, 97 AD, before his death in January 98. The Antioch mint operated under a distinct civic coinage tradition that Rome largely permitted to continue, and these provincial tetradrachms circulated regionally rather than feeding into the broader imperial silver supply. Prieur's cataloguing of this type identified meaningful obverse die linkages across the series, suggesting a relatively compressed production window rather than sustained output across the reign.