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Æ15 - Augustus ΙΕΡΑΠΟΛΕΙΤΩΝ ΗΡΑΣ
| Issuer | City of Hierapolis (Conventus of Cibyra) |
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| Year | 5 BC |
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| Composition | Leaded bronze |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed bust of Gaius Caesar facing right, rendered in the Hellenistic portrait tradition with finely detailed hair and youthful features. The effigy is presented in profile with truncated neck, occupying the central field of the flan. The portrait displays the characteristic idealized style of Julio-Claudian provincial coinage, with softly modeled facial contours. The legend ΓΑΙΟΣ appears in the field, identifying the subject as Gaius Caesar, grandson and adopted heir of Augustus. |
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| Obverse lettering | ΓΑΙΟΣ |
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Hierapolis in Phrygia sat on the road network connecting the Maeander valley to the interior, which made it commercially consequential enough to strike its own civic bronze well into the imperial period. This issue dates to the early Augustan reorganization of Asia Minor, when cities like Hierapolis were actively minting small bronzes to fill the gap left by the near-total absence of Roman imperial coinage at the local transaction level. The cult of Hera at Hierapolis was longstanding and the city's ethnic — ΙΕΡΑΠΟΛΕΙΤΩΝ — appears consistently on civic issues as a marker of municipal autonomy under Roman oversight.