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Æ19 - Elagabalus ΙΛΙΕΩΝ
| Issuer | Ilium (Conventus of Adramyteum) |
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| Year | 218-222 |
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| Weight | 3.30 g |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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Ilium — the ancient city claiming direct descent from Troy — leveraged that mythology aggressively under Roman rule, and civic bronzes like this one were part of that effort. The city had no strategic or economic significance by the Severan period; what it had was a story, and Roman emperors indulged it. Julius Caesar had visited, Augustus had considered making it a capital of the eastern empire, and Caracalla made a theatrical pilgrimage to Achilles' tomb there just years before Elagabalus took the throne.
Production at Ilium was modest and intermittent, which keeps survival numbers low for the entire civic series.