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Æ14 - Commodus ΔΗΜΗΤΡΙΟΥ
| Issuer | Came (Lydia), civic mint under Roman Imperial authority |
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| Year | 184-187 |
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| Weight | 1.69 g |
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| Reverse description | Ithyphallic herm of the bearded god Priapus standing to the left, depicted in the traditional aniconic herm form with an erect phallus, a common votive and apotropaic image in Anatolian civic coinage. The figure is rendered schematically, consistent with the small module and the hammered technique. The magistrate's name in the genitive, ΔΗΜΗΤΡΙΟΥ, appears in the field, indicating this issue was struck under the authority of the magistrate Demetrios. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΔΗΜΗΤΡΙΟΥ |
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Came was a minor Lydian settlement granted limited civic coining rights under the Antonine and Severan dynasties — a privilege extended to dozens of small Asia Minor communities as Rome allowed local bronze to circulate for everyday transactions that imperial coinage rarely reached. The magistrate name ΔΗΜΗΤΡΙΟΥ places this issue within a known sequence of civic officials, though the man himself is otherwise unattested in the epigraphic record.