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Triassarion - Commodus ΗΓ ΚΑΙΚ ΜΑΤΕΡΝοΥ ΜΑΡΚΙΑΝΟΠΟΛΕΙΤΩΝ
| Issuer | Marcianopolis (Moesia Inferior) |
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| Year | 177-193 |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Reverse description | Apollo standing to the right, his right hand raised and extended over his head in a gesture of divination or salutation. A bow rests against a tree trunk around which a serpent is entwined, positioned to the god's left. The reverse field is encircled by a Greek legend naming the provincial governor Caecilius Maternus and the issuing city of Marcianopolis. The composition reflects the syncretic religious iconography common to provincial coinage of the Antonine and Severan periods in Moesia Inferior. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΗΓ ΚΑΙΚ ΜΑΤΕΡΝοΥ ΜΑΡΚΙΑΝΟΠΟΛΕΙΤΩΝ (Translation: during the governorship of Caecilius Maternus, [Coin] of the Marcianopolitans) |
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Marcianopolis, founded by Trajan and named for his sister Marciana, became one of the more prolific bronze-issuing civic mints in Moesia Inferior during the Antonine and Severan periods. The magistrate name preserved in the obverse legend — Maternus — helps anchor this piece within the sequence of local governors whose tenures structured the city's coinage, though the precise chronology of individual magistracies in this province remains only partially resolved by scholarship.
The ΗΓ control mark denotes the third of a series of denominations struck at Marcianopolis, with the triassarion being a three-assaria bronze common to the Danubian civic mints.