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Æ18 - Commodus ΑΙΖΑΝΕΙΤΩΝ

Issuer	Aezani (Conventus of Sardis)
Year	184-192
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Shape	Round (irregular)
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Obverse description	Diademed and bearded head of the Demos facing right, rendered in the conventional personification style of provincial civic coinage. The hair is depicted in loose, flowing locks, and the diadem is visible across the brow. The legend ΔΗΜΟϹ appears in the field, identifying the effigy as the personified citizenry of Aezanis. The flan is irregular, characteristic of provincial bronze production of the period.
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Reverse description	Hygieia, goddess of health, standing to the right in draped attire, extending a patera in her right hand from which a large serpent coils upward to feed. The figure is rendered in the standard Hellenistic iconographic tradition for Hygieia common to Phrygian provincial coinage of the Antonine period. The encircling ethnic legend ΑΙΖΑΝΕΙΤΩΝ fills the periphery of the flan, identifying the issuing civic authority of Aezanis.
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