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Æ20 - Titus and Domitian ΚΛΑΥΔΙΟΛΑΟΔΙΚΕωΝ
| Issuer | Laodicea Catacecaumene |
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| Year | 69-79 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Confronted bare heads of Titus, facing right, and Domitian, facing left, jugate within the field. The circular Greek legend ΤΙΤΟϹ ΚΑΙ ΔΟΜΙΤΙΑΝΟϹ ΚΑΙϹΑΡΕϹ runs around the periphery, identifying the two Flavian princes as Caesars. The portraits are rendered in typical provincial style, with softly modeled features characteristic of Julio-Claudian and early Flavian civic coinage of Asia Minor. |
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| Reverse description | Cybele, the Phrygian mother goddess, seated left on a throne, holding a patera in her extended right hand and a tympanum in her left; a lion crouches beneath her seat. The divided circular legend ΚΛΑΥΔΙΟΛΑΟΔΙΚΕωΝ surrounds the type, with ΚΛΑΥ visible in the lower exergual area and the remainder distributed around the field, attesting to the city's honorific Claudian designation. The reverse type reflects the strong local veneration of Cybele in Phrygia and Lydia. |
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Laodicea Catacecaumene — "the burned Laodicea," named for the volcanic terrain of Lycaonia surrounding it — was a modest inland city with limited autonomous coinage. This joint issue naming both Titus and Domitian as Caesars dates the striking to the Flavian period under Vespasian, when imperial family members were routinely honored on provincial bronzes as a gesture of dynastic loyalty rather than administrative necessity. The window narrows considerably: both held the title Caesar simultaneously only during Vespasian's reign, before Titus succeeded in 79 AD.