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Æ19 - Tiberius ΜΕΝΕΔΗΜΟΣ ΣΙΒΛΙΑΝΩΝ
| Issuer | Siblia (Conventus of Apamea) |
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| Year | 14-37 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Reverse description | Bust of the lunar deity Mên facing left, wearing the characteristic Phrygian cap set upon a crescent, the iconographic hallmarks of this Anatolian god. The figure is rendered in a provincial style consistent with civic bronzes of the Apamean conventus under the Julio-Claudian dynasty. The Greek magistrate's name and ethnic legend ΜΕΝΕΔΗΜΟΣ ΣΙΒΛΙΑΝΩΝ are disposed around the type in the field. |
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| Mint | Siblia |
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Siblia was a minor Phrygian settlement within the conventus of Apamea whose civic coinage under Tiberius represents one of the few material traces the town left at all — it does not appear in the major geographical surveys of the period with any prominence. The magistrate name ΜΕΝΕΔΗΜΟΣ identifies this as a civic issue tied to a local official whose tenure under the early principate gave the community its brief window of recorded monetary activity.
The conventus of Apamea administered a sprawling cluster of Phrygian and Lydian communities, many of which struck small bronze only sporadically under individual magistrates.