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Æ19 - Menodotos and Silion
| Issuer | Akmoneia |
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| Year | 100 BC - 1 BC |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Reverse description | Standing draped figure, likely a deity, facing front in the central field, flanked on either side by a vertical Greek inscription divided into two columns. The legend reads AKMONE to the right and MHNOΔO / ΣIΛΛΩΝ to the left, identifying the city of Akmoneia and the magistrates Menodotos and Sillon. The composition is typical of Hellenistic civic bronzes from Phrygia, with the central figure rendered in low relief and the lettering arranged in vertical columns flanking the type. |
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| Reverse lettering | AKMONE MHNOΔO ΣIΛΛΩΝ |
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Akmoneia, a Phrygian city of modest political weight, occasionally named local magistrates on its bronze coinage — a practice that turns otherwise anonymous civic issues into prosopographical evidence. Menodotos appears as the responsible magistrate here, his name preserving a Hellenistic naming convention still common across western Anatolia well into the Roman provincial period. Silion likely denotes a secondary official or ethnic designation, though the pairing's exact administrative meaning remains debated among specialists in Phrygian civic epigraphy.