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Æ17 - Nero ΕΠΙ ΤΙ ΔΑΜΑ ΜΙ
| Issuer | Miletus |
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| Year | 54-68 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse description | Bare laureate head of Apollo facing right, rendered in the Hellenistic tradition with finely articulated hair bound by a laurel wreath. The portrait is set within a plain, unstruck field with no surrounding legend, the youthful features characteristic of Apollo as depicted on Milesian civic coinage of the Imperial period. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΕΠΙ ΤΙ ΔΑΜΑ ΜΙ |
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Miletus had been minting autonomous bronze for decades before Nero's reign, but this civic issue — naming the local magistrate Ti. Damas — reflects the city's continued practice of embedding local administrative identity into imperial coinage. The magistrate's name dominates the reverse formula, a reminder that provincial minting under the early empire was a civic privilege managed by local officials, not a Roman imposition.
RPC I 2717 records multiple specimens, with weight variation suggesting production across more than one die pair during the reign's fourteen-year span.