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Æ17 - Nero ΦΩ, ΔΗΜΟϹΘΕΝΗϹ ΗΓΙΟΥ
| Issuer | Phocaea (Conventus of Smyrna) |
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| Year | 54-68 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Standing figure of Cybele, the Anatolian mother goddess, depicted facing with head turned to the left and wearing a kalathos (cylindrical crown). She extends her right hand forward holding a patera, while her left hand supports a tympanum (drum) resting on her left shoulder, reflecting the iconographic conventions of her cult as worshipped in western Asia Minor. The magistrate's name and civic ethnic are inscribed in the field. |
| Reverse script | Greek |
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Phocaea's civic bronze coinage under Nero was administered through the conventus system, where Roman judicial circuits doubled as administrative frameworks for local mint activity. The magistrate name preserved here — Demosthenes, son of Hagios — is one of a small number of named officials attested on Phocaean bronzes from this reign, making these pieces minor prosopographical documents for the Greek municipal aristocracy of western Asia Minor under early imperial rule.