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Æ19 - Augustus ΑΝΤΩ) ΠΟΛΕΜΩΝ ΦΙΛΟΠΑΤΡΙΣ ΛΑΟΔΙΚΕΩΝ
| Issuer | Laodicea ad Lycum (Conventus of Cibyra) |
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| Year | 5 BC |
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| Composition | Leaded bronze |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed bust of Augustus facing right, with short wavy hair rendered in fine strands. The portrait displays the idealized physiognomy characteristic of Augustan imperial iconography. The Greek legend ΣΕΒΑΣΤΟΣ (Sebastos, the Greek equivalent of Augustus) is disposed around the field. The bust is lightly draped at the shoulder, and the overall style reflects the influence of official Julio-Claudian portraiture as adapted by a provincial Phrygian mint. |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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Polemon I of Pontus held client-king status under Augustus and was granted Laodicea ad Lycum's honorary magistracy as part of the broader Roman strategy of binding eastern dynasts to civic institutions through prestige appointments. The epithet ΦΙΛΟΠΑΤΡΙΣ — "lover of his homeland" — is a pointed choice for a man whose actual homeland was contested; he had been installed in Pontus by Mark Antony and then carefully repositioned as an Augustan loyalist after Actium.
RPC I 2895 is among the few civic bronzes of the Cibyra conventus to name a non-local magistrate so prominently.