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Æ16 - Domitian ΔΟΡΥΛΑΕΩΝ
| Issuer | Dorylaeum (Conventus of Synnada) |
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| Year | 81-96 |
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| Weight | 3.87 g |
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| Obverse description | Laureate head of the emperor Domitian facing right, rendered in the provincial Greek style typical of Phrygia under the Flavian dynasty. The effigy displays a wreath of laurel leaves about the head, with facial features visible though worn. The encircling Greek legend ΔΟΜΙΤΙΑΝΟϹ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ runs around the field, framed by a beaded border. |
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| Obverse lettering | ΔΟΜΙΤΙΑΝΟϹ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ (Translation: Domitian Caesar) |
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Dorylaeum, a Phrygian city on the imperial road connecting Nicaea to the eastern provinces, struck bronze issues under Domitian as part of the broader civic coinage system that Rome permitted to provincial cities for small-denomination local exchange. The Conventus of Synnada — the judicial district to which Dorylaeum belonged — encompassed some of the most densely urbanized territory in inner Anatolia, and civic mints within it operated with considerable autonomy in design selection while acknowledging imperial authority through the obverse portrait.
Domitian's damnatio memoriae following his assassination in 96 AD did not extend systematically to provincial bronzes, leaving these Phrygian issues largely uncancelled.