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Æ19 - Marcus Aurelius ΚΑΔΟΗΝΩΝ
| Issuer | Cadi (Conventus of Sardis) |
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| Year | 178-179 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse lettering | ΚΡΙϹΠΙΝΑ ϹΕΒ |
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| Mintage | ND (178-179) |
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Cadi was a minor Phrygian city in the Sardis conventus — one of the judicial districts Rome used to administer Asia Minor — with a modest civic coinage that surged briefly under the joint reign of Marcus Aurelius and Commodus. The 178–179 window corresponds almost exactly to the period when Commodus was elevated to co-emperor, a political event that prompted numerous provincial mints to issue fresh civic bronzes acknowledging the new dynastic arrangement.
The ethnic ΚΑΔΟΗΝΩΝ places this firmly among the city's self-identifying issues, a practice Phrygian towns maintained tenaciously long after such autonomy had become largely ceremonial.