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Æ15 - Nero ΜΑΙΟΝΩΝ ΜΕΝΕΚΡΑΤΟΥϹ, ΕΠ Τ ΚΛ
| Issuer | Maeonia (Conventus of Sardis) |
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| Year | 65 |
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| Composition | Leaded bronze |
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| Obverse description | Bare laureate head of Emperor Nero facing right, rendered in the provincial Greek style with softly modelled features. The portrait is encircled by the Greek legend ΝΕΡΩΝ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ disposed around the field. The die-work reflects the local Lydian engraving tradition typical of Julio-Claudian civic bronzes from the Sardis conventus. |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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Maeonia was a small Lydian city whose civic coinage under Nero almost invariably names a local magistrate — here Menekrates, serving under the magistracy of T. Claudius, whose partial title appears in the legend. The city issued sporadically and in small volume, which accounts for why RPC I 2982 turns up so infrequently in trade. Provincial bronze at this scale from interior Lydia rarely traveled far from the issuing city before being lost or recycled.