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Æ17 - Elagabalus ΕΦΕϹΙΩΝ
| Issuer | Ephesus (Conventus of Ephesus) |
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| Year | 218-222 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse lettering | (Μ ΑΥΡ) ΑΝΤΩΝΕΙΝΟϹ (ΑΥΓ) (Translation: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus) |
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| Reverse lettering | ΕΦΕϹΙΩΝ (Translation: of the Ephesians) |
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Ephesus retained extraordinary minting autonomy under the Severan dynasty, continuing to strike civic bronze long after many Asian cities had ceded that privilege. Elagabalus, whose four-year reign was consumed by religious controversy centered on his installation of the Syrian sun-god Elagabal as Rome's supreme deity, appears to have done little to interfere with established provincial mint operations — the coins kept coming regardless of the chaos in Rome.
The VI#4945 reference places this within Vogt's corpus of Ephesian issues, a series notable for its die-link complexity across reign transitions.