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Æ19 - Nero ΕΠΙ ΜΙΝΔΙΟΥ ΣΑΡΔΙΑΝΩΝ, ΣΤΡΑ ΤΟ, Β
| Issuer | Sardes (Conventus of Sardis) |
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| Year | 60 |
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| Diameter | 19 mm |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | Full-length figure of Dionysus standing to the left, holding a cantharus (wine cup) in his outstretched right hand and a long thyrsus (staff topped with a pine cone) in his left hand. A panther, the sacred animal of Dionysus, crouches at his feet. The composition reflects the strong Dionysiac cult traditions of Sardis in Lydia, and the magistrate's name and civic ethnic are disposed around the field in Greek lettering. |
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Sardis served as the seat of one of the seven conventus juridici of the Roman province of Asia, and coins struck under local magistrates like Mindios carried the strategos's name as a mark of civic accountability — the office roughly equivalent to a chief municipal magistrate answerable to Rome. The "B" in the legend designates this as a second issue under the same strategos, suggesting Mindios held office long enough to authorize more than one emission.