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Æ20 - Antoninus Pius ΑΓΡΕΥϹ ΑΡΧΙΕΡΑΤΕ ΑΛΙΗΝΟΙϹ
| Issuer | Alia (Conventus of Apamea) |
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| Year | 150-161 |
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| Weight | 5.15 g |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Faustina II facing right, with hair elaborately styled in waves swept back from the forehead and gathered at the nape, characteristic of her Antonine-period portraiture. The effigy is rendered in the provincial Greek style, with drapery folds indicated at the truncation. The encircling legend ΦΑΥϹΤΕΙΝΑ ΑΥΓΟΥϹΤΑ runs around the bust in Greek characters. |
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| Mintage | ND (150-161) |
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Alia was a minor Phrygian settlement within the conventus of Apamea, one of the judicial districts Rome used to administer the interior of Asia Minor. The inscription ΑΡΧΙΕΡΑΤΕ places this issue during the tenure of a local archiereus — a provincial high priest of the imperial cult — whose name, Agreus, is preserved here almost by accident. These small civic bronzes were struck not by Rome but by the city itself, funding the dies and the pour, the magistrate's name the only record that he ever held the office at all.