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Æ19 - Nero ΓΛΥΚΩΝ ΙΕΡΕΥΣ ΗΡΑΚΛΕΩΤΩΝ
| Issuer | Heraclea Salbace (Conventus of Alabanda) |
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| Year | 54-68 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | Standing figure of Heracles advancing to the left, depicted nude with one arm extended forward and holding a club, the city's patron deity rendered in a schematic but recognisable provincial style. The figure occupies the central field, flanked by the Greek magistrate legend distributed around the periphery within a dotted border. |
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Heraclea Salbace was a minor Carian city whose civic coinage under Nero was issued through the conventus system, with Alabanda serving as the administrative center for the district. The magistrate name ΓΛΥΚΩΝ, rendered here in the genitive as part of the priestly title, identifies the issuing authority as a local hiereus — a civic priest — of Heraclean civic cult, a formula common to Carian bronze issues of the Julio-Claudian period but specific enough to this city to aid attribution. Such small Carian bronzes circulated hyper-locally and rarely traveled far from their issuing community.