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Æ17 - Vespasian ΕΠΙ ΑΙΓΑΙΑΝΟΥ ΛΕΒΕΔΙΩΝ
| Issuer | Lebedus (Conventus of Ephesus) |
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| Year | 69-79 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Laureate head of Emperor Vespasian facing right, rendered in the provincial Greek style with characteristically broad facial features. The effigy displays a wreath of laurel leaves encircling the head, with short hair visible beneath. The surrounding field carries the imperial titulature in Greek characters arranged as a border legend reading ΑΥΤΟΚΡΑΤΩΡ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ ΟΥΕϹΠΑϹΙΑΝΟϹ. The portrait is vigorously engraved in moderate relief, consistent with the civic bronze coinage of the Ionian conventus. |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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Lebedus was one of the twelve Ionian cities, but by the Imperial period it had long been overshadowed — Lysimachus forcibly synoikized its population into Ephesus around 295 BC, and the city never fully recovered its former standing. That it was still issuing civic bronze under Vespasian, naming a local magistrate Aegianos, suggests a modest administrative continuity rather than genuine urban vitality. The magistrate formula ΕΠΙ ΑΙΓΑΙΑΝΟΥ places this squarely within the conventional civic bronze tradition of the Ephesian conventus.