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Æ19 - Nero ΙΟΥΛΙΟΣ ΑΝΔΡΟΝΙΚΟΣ ΕΥΕΡΓΕΤΗΣ ΛΑΟΔΙΚΕΩΝ
| Issuer | Laodicea ad Lycum (Conventus of Cibyra) |
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| Year | 62 |
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| Diameter | 19 mm |
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| Obverse description | Bare head of the emperor Nero facing right, rendered in the naturalistic provincial style typical of Phrygian civic coinage. The portrait displays the characteristic youthful features of Nero's early reign, with short wavy hair and a rounded jawline. A dotted border encircles the flan. The Greek legend ΝΕΡΩΝ ΣΕΒΑΣΤΟΣ ΘΕΟΣ surrounds the effigy, identifying the emperor as Augustus and god. |
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| Obverse lettering | ΝΕΡΩΝ ΣΕΒΑΣΤΟΣ ΘΕΟΣ |
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Laodicea ad Lycum was devastated by a major earthquake in 60 AD, just two years before this coin was struck. The city famously refused imperial relief funds and rebuilt entirely from its own resources — a point of civic pride that Tacitus noted explicitly. The magistrate name in the legend, Iulios Andronikos Euergetes, reflects exactly the kind of local elite benefactor who would have bankrolled that recovery, and whose family connections to Rome made the Neronian imperial cult a useful political currency at precisely this moment.