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Æ19 - Severus Alexander ΥΡΓΑΛΕΩΝ ΤΟ ΤϚ
| Issuer | Hyrgaleis (Conventus of Apamea) |
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| Year | 222 |
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| Diameter | 19 mm |
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| Reverse description | Hermes depicted standing facing, head turned to left, clad in chlamys draped over his left arm. In his right hand he holds a purse, symbolic of commerce and prosperity, while his left hand grasps the kerykeion (caduceus), his divine attribute. The figure is rendered in the compact, provincial style characteristic of Phrygian civic bronzes of the early third century AD, with the ethnic legend disposed in the field. |
| Reverse script | Greek |
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The Hyrgaleis were a small Lydian community whose coins are poorly documented and rarely surface in trade. The civic designation ΤΟ ΤϚ — indicating a sixth neokorate or civic era count, depending on interpretation — is itself a point of unresolved scholarly dispute. This issue belongs to the early reign of Severus Alexander, when provincial mints across the Conventus of Apamea briefly flourished before the broader contraction of Lydian civic coinage that preceded the near-total collapse of the provincial bronze system under the military pressures of the 230s.