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Æ18 - Trajan ΓΟΡΔΗΝΩΝ ΕΠΙ ΠΟΠΛΙΟΥ
| Issuer | Iulia Gordus (Conventus of Sardis) |
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| Year | 98-117 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Plotina, empress consort of Trajan, facing right, her hair elaborately coiffed in the Trajanic court style. The portrait is rendered in low relief, characteristic of provincial bronze coinage of the Lydian conventus. The circumferential Greek legend reads ΠΛΩΤΕΙΝΑ ϹΕΒΑϹΤΗ, identifying the empress with her Augustan title. |
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| Obverse lettering | ΠΛΩΤΕΙΝΑ ϹΕΒΑϹΤΗ |
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Iulia Gordus was a small Lydian city whose coins consistently name the local magistrate responsible for the issue — the ΕΠΙ ΠΟΠΛΙΟΥ formula indicating a Roman citizen, likely a Greek-named local notable bearing a Latin praenomen, holding the civic post of grammateus or strategos during Trajan's reign. This naming convention was common across the Sardis conventus but survives patchily, making magistrate-attributed bronzes useful anchors for sequencing the city's otherwise poorly documented civic chronology.