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Æ17 - Domitian ΝΑΚΟΛΕΩΝ
| Issuer | Nacolea (Conventus of Synnada) |
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| Year | 81-96 |
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| Weight | 3.27 g |
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| Obverse description | Laureate head of Emperor Domitian facing right, rendered in the provincial style typical of Phrygian civic coinage. The portrait displays a wreath of laurel leaves encircling the head, with facial features characteristic of Flavian imperial portraiture. The surrounding Greek legend runs clockwise around the periphery of the flan, identifying the emperor with his full titulature. The flan is irregular and slightly worn, consistent with hammered provincial bronze coinage of the period. |
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| Obverse lettering | ΑΥΤ ΔΟΜΙΤΙΑΝΟΣ ΚΑΙ ΣΕΒ ΓΕ (Translation: Emperor Domitian Caesar Augustus Germanicus) |
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Nacolea was a minor Phrygian city whose civic coinage under the Flavians was produced sporadically and in small volume, which accounts for the general rarity of provincial bronzes attributable to this mint. The city held no strategic or administrative prominence within the Synnada conventus — it was one of several obscure Phrygian communities that struck coins largely as a matter of civic pride rather than commercial necessity.
Surviving examples from Nacolea are thinly documented, and die studies for this type remain incomplete.