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Æ19 - Gallienus sole reign) (ΕΠ ΦΡΟΝΤΩΝΟϹ ΜΑΓΝ
| Issuer | City of Magnesia ad Sipylum (Conventus of Smyrna) |
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| Year | 260-268 |
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| Diameter | 19 mm |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of the personified Roman Senate (ϹΥΝΚΛΗΤΟϹ) facing right, depicted with wavy hair and wearing a paludamentum secured at the shoulder. The effigy is rendered in the provincial style typical of Asia Minor civic bronzes of the mid-third century AD. The circular Greek legend surrounds the bust in the field, reading ΙΕΡΑ ϹΥΝΚΛΗΤΟϹ (Sacred Senate). The portrait conveys a dignified, idealized character consistent with the allegorical representation of the Senate as a divine institution. |
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| Reverse description | A tetrastyle temple with four columns is depicted, its lintel rendered in arcuated (arched) form, a distinctive architectural feature of certain Anatolian civic types. Within the intercolumniation stands the figure of Tyche, the city's tutelary deity, facing left, holding a ship's rudder in her right hand and a cornucopia in her left arm, emblematic of good fortune and prosperity. The reverse legend, distributed around the field, names the local magistrate responsible for the issue and identifies the civic authority. The composition is consistent with the temple-façade reverse type commonly employed by the cities of the Conventus of Smyrna during the Gallienic period. |
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| Mint | Magnesia ad Sipylum |
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