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Æ20 - Trajan ΑΝΔΡΟΚΛΟϹ ΚΟΡΗϹΟϹ ΕΦΕ
| Issuer | Ephesus (Conventus of Ephesus) |
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| Year | 98-117 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Laureate head of the emperor Trajan facing right, with finely rendered hair beneath the laurel wreath and a bare neck. The portrait displays the characteristic strong jaw and prominent features associated with Trajanic imperial portraiture. The surrounding Greek legend arcs around the obverse field, identifying the emperor by his titulature. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΑΝΔΡΟΚΛΟϹ ΚΟΡΗϹΟϹ ΕΦΕ (Translation: Androklos, of Koresos, of the Ephesians) |
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Ephesus mint activity under Trajan coincided with the city's peak as the largest Roman metropolis in Asia Minor and seat of the conventus juridicus — the regional assize court where the governor dispensed Roman justice. The legend invoking Androclus, the mythological Athenian founder of Ephesus, was a deliberate assertion of civic prestige, the city leaning hard on its foundation myth at a moment when rivalry with Smyrna and Pergamon for the title of "first city of Asia" was genuinely contested.