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Æ19 - Marcus Aurelius ΙΕΡΟΚΑΙϹΑΡΕΩΝ
| Issuer | Hierocaesarea (Conventus of Pergamum) |
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| Year | 163-165 |
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| Weight | 4.60 g |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse lettering | ΙΕΡΟΚΑΙϹΑΡΕΩΝ |
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Hierocaesarea was a small Lydian city whose civic identity was built almost entirely around the sanctuary of Persian Artemis — a cult of distinctly Iranian origin that survived well into the Roman imperial period. The city's coinage under Marcus Aurelius coincides with the early years of his reign, when he governed jointly with Lucius Verus, and civic mints across the Pergamene conventus were actively renewing their relationships with the new administration through bronze issues of exactly this kind.
The cult's Persian associations made Hierocaesarea unusual even by the syncretic standards of Asia Minor.