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Æ16 - Tiberius ϹΕΒΑϹΤΗΝ ΜΑΓΝΗΤΕϹ Α (Ο) (ΙΠΥ)
| Issuer | City of Magnesia ad Sipylum (Conventus of Smyrna) |
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| Year | 17-37 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Reverse description | Draped bust of Livia (Julia Augusta), wife of Augustus and mother of Tiberius, facing right, her hair elaborately waved and drawn back in the characteristic Augustan court style. The bust is rendered with careful attention to portraiture, consistent with honorific provincial issues. The surrounding legend identifies the issuing city of Magnesia ad Sipylum and invokes the imperial title Augusta (ϹΕΒΑϹΤΗΝ). The coin was struck by the Magnesians of Sipylum in honor of the imperial family during the reign of Tiberius. |
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| Mint | Magnesia ad Sipylum, Lydia, Turkey |
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Magnesia ad Sipylum's civic coinage under Tiberius carries unusual administrative weight. The city sat within the conventus of Smyrna, one of the wealthiest juridical districts in Asia Minor, and its bronze issues served local transactional needs during a period when the imperial government showed little interest in supplying the eastern provinces with small denomination bronze. Cities were effectively left to mint their own.
The magistrate abbreviations encoded in this issue — ΙΠΥ among them — remain only partially resolved in the scholarly record.