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Æ 32 - Antoninus Pius EΠΙ ΠΟΠΛΙΟV ΓΡΑΜΜΑΤEΩC ΤΡΑΛΙΑΝΩΝ
| Issuer | Tralles |
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| Year | 139-144 |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Obverse description | Laureate and draped bust of Antoninus Pius facing right, rendered in the realistic portraiture style characteristic of Antonine provincial coinage. The emperor's features include a short beard and carefully articulated hair beneath the laurel wreath. The Greek legend encircles the bust along the periphery of the flan, reading partially around the circumference. The flan is broad and slightly irregular, typical of eastern provincial bronze issues of the mid-second century AD. |
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| Obverse lettering | ΤΙΤΟC ΑΙΛΙΟC ΚΑΙC ΑΝΤΩΝEΙΝΟC (Translation: `Titus Helius Caesar Antoninus`.) |
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Tralles, a prosperous city in the Maeander valley of Lydia, used civic coinage partly as an administrative record — the magistrate named in the legend, Poplios (likely a Hellenized Roman citizen), held the grammateus, the city secretary's office, which in Asia Minor frequently carried responsibility for overseeing coin issues. The grammateus credit on the die is not decorative; it was accountability in metal.
RPC IV.2 1596 represents a narrow emission window within Antoninus Pius's reign, tied to local rather than imperial initiative.