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Æ18 - Marcus Aurelius ΕΠΙ ΑΠΟΛΛοΔΩΡοΥ ϹΤ (Ρ shaped as Ϸ)
| Issuer | Bagis (Conventus of Sardis) |
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| Year | 178-180 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse description | Bearded head of Heracles facing right, wearing the lion-skin headdress, set within a dotted border. The hero's characteristic leonine scalp is rendered in low relief, with the beast's muzzle visible atop the head. The Greek civic legend ΒΑΓΗΝΩΝ (of the Bagènoi) runs around the periphery. The die work is typical of the provincial bronze coinage of Lydia under Marcus Aurelius, with a somewhat coarse but expressive rendering of the divine hero. |
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| Obverse lettering | ΒΑΓΗΝΩΝ |
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Bagis was a minor Lydian city whose civic coinage depended entirely on the prestige of a named local magistrate — here Apollodoros, whose title ΕΠΙ identifies him as the supervising authority for the issue. The aberrant Ϸ-shaped rho in the inscription is not damage or wear but a genuine die-cutter's idiosyncrasy, specific to this emission and useful for die-linking studies within the Bagis civic series.