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Æ20 - Caracalla ΕΠΙ ΔΙΟΓΕΝΟΥ ΑΡΧ Α ΤΟ Β ΒΑΓΗΝΩΝ
| Issuer | Bagis (Conventus of Sardis) |
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| Year | 198-217 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | Asclepius, the god of medicine, rendered standing facing with head turned to the left, robed in a long chiton, his right hand resting upon his serpent-entwined staff (the caduceus of healing). The encircling Greek legend naming the magistrate Diogenes and the civic community of the Bagians runs around the field. The die work is characteristic of the provincial bronze coinage of the Lydian conventus under the Severan dynasty. |
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Bagis was a minor Lydian city whose civic coinage under the Severan dynasty leaned heavily on the title of its magistrates — the archon formula appearing in the legend here pins this issue to a specific local official whose second term of office is explicitly recorded on the coin itself. Such precision was a matter of civic pride, not administrative necessity. The city's output was modest, and issues bearing the full archon-title-with-term notation are correspondingly scarce in reference collections.