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Æ21 - Antoninus Pius ΑΙΛ ΔΙΟΝΥϹΙΟϹ (may be retrograde, Ν may be reversed)
| Issuer | Laodicea ad Lycum (Conventus of Cibyra) |
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| Year | 139-146 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse description | Youthful draped bust of Dionysus facing right, the head crowned with an ivy wreath, long curling locks of hair falling about the neck and shoulders. The bust is rendered in the Hellenistic tradition typical of Phrygian civic bronze coinage of the Antonine period. The circular legend ΛΑΟΔΙΚΕΩΝ appears in Greek script around the bust in the field. |
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| Reverse description | A Bacchic mask of Silenus adorned with an ivy wreath rests upon a cista mystica, the sacred wicker basket of the Dionysiac mysteries. A serpent coils around the cista, its head raised to the right. To the left stands a pedum (shepherd's crook) from which a pair of cymbals is suspended, further emblems of the Dionysiac cult. The magistrate's name ΑΙΛ ΔΙΟΝΥϹΙΟϹ appears in the field, possibly in retrograde with the Ν potentially reversed. |
| Reverse script | Greek |
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