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Æ - Socrates and Aristeides
| Issuer | Amorium (Phrygia) |
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| Year | 133 BC - 30 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Amorium was a Phrygian city that would later achieve notoriety as a major Byzantine stronghold, but in this earlier period it operated as a semi-autonomous civic mint under loose Attalid and then Roman provincial oversight. The decision to invoke Socrates and Aristeides — an Athenian philosopher and an Athenian statesman — on a Phrygian civic bronze is genuinely unusual, reflecting the deep cultural prestige these figures held across the Greek-speaking world long after Athens itself had ceased to be a political force.
Aristeides the Just died around 468 BC; the gap between his lifetime and this coin's production spans roughly four centuries.