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| Issuer | Ephesus (Conventus of Ephesus) |
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| Year | 65-66 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Jugate busts of Nero and Poppaea facing right, Nero laureate and in slight foreground, Poppaea draped behind him. The effigies are rendered in the prevailing Julio-Claudian portrait style, with both heads shown in profile. The Greek legend ΝΕΡΩΝ ΠΟΠΠΑΙΑ is disposed around the busts in the field. |
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| Reverse description | A stag standing to right, depicted in profile with its head erect and all four legs clearly defined on a plain ground line. The animal is the sacred stag of Artemis, patron deity of Ephesus, rendered in a naturalistic style characteristic of Ephesian civic coinage. The Greek legend naming the proconsul Aviola, the magistrate Aichmokles, and the civic ethnic ΕΦΕ (for Ephesos) surrounds the type in the field. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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