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| Issuer | Philomelion (Phrygia) |
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| Year | 133 BC - 30 BC |
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| Weight | 8.12 g |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Nike facing right, rendered in fine Hellenistic style with curling locks of hair swept back from the forehead. The goddess wears a diadem and a himation draped over the shoulder, with a palm frond rising prominently behind the bust — an attribute emblematic of victory. The portrait is modelled with confident relief, the facial features well-defined with a straight nose and delicate lips characteristic of late Hellenistic civic coinage of Phrygia. |
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| Mint | Philomelion, Phrygia |
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Philomelion occupied a strategically useful position on the road between Apameia and Ikonion in Phrygia, which is precisely why Rome absorbed it so efficiently after Attalos III bequeathed Pergamon to the Republic in 133 BC. The city's civic bronze coinage — this series among them — continued under the new provincial arrangement of Asia, one of dozens of Phrygian communities permitted to strike small-denomination bronze for local exchange while Roman administrators extracted the region's agricultural surplus.
The magistrate name partially preserved in this type's attribution reflects the Greek administrative class that persisted through the transition intact.