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Æ14 - Augustus ΙΕΡΑΠΟΛΕΙΤΩΝ ΔΟΡΥΚΑΝΟΣ
| Issuer | City of Hierapolis (Conventus of Cibyra) |
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| Year | 10 BC - 9 BC |
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| Composition | Leaded bronze |
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| Obverse description | Bare head of Paullus Fabius Maximus, proconsul of Asia, facing right, rendered in a relatively simple provincial style. The portrait occupies the central field of the flan with the legend placed around the periphery. The bust is unadorned, consistent with the honorific portraiture of Roman magistrates on Phrygian civic bronze coinage of the Augustan period. |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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Hierapolis in Phrygia — not to be confused with the better-known Syrian city — sat within the Conventus of Cibyra, one of the four judicial districts Rome organized in the province of Asia. The magistrate name ΔΟΡΥΚΑΝΟΣ (Dorykan0s) appearing here places this among the civic bronze issues produced under Augustus when local elites competed for the honor of financing and supervising coin production, a role that conferred considerable prestige. Such magistracies were self-funded.
The emission dates to the period following the Actian settlement, when Phrygian cities were actively reorienting civic identity around the new order.