Æ18 - Elagabalus ΙΕΠΟΡΑΛΕΙΤΩΝ (sic)

The misspelling in the ethnic — ΙΕΠΟΡΑΛΕΙΤΩΝ rather than the expected ΙΕΡΑΠΟΛΕΙΤΩΝ — is not a modern cataloguer's error but appears on the die itself, making it a deliberate or careless cutter's mistake preserved in bronze. Hierapolis in Phrygia issued civic bronze throughout the Severan period under the conventus jurisdiction of Cibyra, one of four assize districts Rome established in the province of Asia. Whether this blundered legend represents a single aberrant die or a broader production run remains an open question in the series.