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Æ16 - Claudius ΜΑΓΝΗΤΩΝ ϹΙΠΥ ΘΕΑΝ ϹΥΝΚΛΗΤΟΝ
| Issuer | City of Magnesia ad Sipylum (Conventus of Smyrna) |
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| Year | 54 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed portrait bust of Nero Caesar facing left, rendered in the youthful Julio-Claudian style typical of his early reign. The hair is depicted in short, forward-combed strands across the brow. The Greek legend ΝΕΡΩΝΑ ΚΑΙϹΑΡΑ is disposed in the field to either side of the effigy. The portrait exhibits the rounded facial features characteristic of Neronian provincial coinage of the mid-first century AD. |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | Draped bust of the personified Senate (ΣΥΝΚΛΗΤΟΣ) facing right, wearing a turreted or mural crown, presented in the manner common to Lydian civic bronzes of the Imperial period. The figure is rendered with careful drapery folds visible at the shoulder. The encircling Greek legend, distributed around the bust, identifies the issuing city and the honorific subject. The composition reflects the standard iconographic formula for the deified Senate on Greek Imperial civic coinage. |
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