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Bronze - Æ 21-22 mm - 5,6 grams - Die axis 06:00.
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CEBACTH - CAB[EINA] (Sebasta Sabeina - Sabina Augusta).
Bust of empress, draped, wearing high diadem, chignon, facing right .
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ATTAEIT (Attait - Attaea).
Rivergod Grylios (from at right to left) lying next to his river.
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ΩN (of the people of).
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Wife and third cousin to Roman Emperor Hadrian. Born about 86 to Salonina Matidia, niece of Roman Emperor Trajan. She was, with her near family, raised in the household of Trajan and his wife Pompeia Plotina. Married Hadrian in 100. They had no children and had an unhappy marriage.
Sabina seem snot to have wanted children of him. Sabina was strong and independent and her beliefs in marriage didn't sit well with the Emperor. Sabina had an affair with one of Hadrian's slave boys. In 128, she was awarded with the title of Augusta. She died in 136 or 137, before her husband, of unknown causes. There were rumours of poisoning.
The river Grylios is called today Madra
Cey.
Provincially minted in Attaea, Mysia.
Obv. : Good - Rev. : Worn flat.
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