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Æ21 - Domitian ΕΠΙΜΕ Τ Φ ΣΩΣΘΕΝΟΥΣ ΚΟΤΙΑΕΩΝ
| Issuer | Cotiaeum (Conventus of Synnada) |
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| Year | 81-96 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Domitia Augusta facing right, with hair arranged in the characteristic Flavian bun style. The effigy is rendered in the provincial Greek tradition, with drapery visible at the truncation. The legend encircles the bust in Greek characters within the field. |
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| Reverse description | The goddess Cybele, Magna Mater, seated to the left upon a throne, holding a patera in her extended right hand and resting her left arm upon a tympanum. A lion, her sacred attribute, is depicted recumbent beneath the throne. The composition is enclosed by the civic and magistrate legend distributed around the field in Greek characters. |
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Cotiaeum, a Phrygian city in the Synnada conventus, operated under a magistrate system in which local officials — here rendered as ΕΠΙΜΕ, shorthand for ἐπιμελητής — bore personal responsibility for the coin issue, their names inscribed as a form of civic accountability. Σωσθένης held that role during Domitian's reign, one of dozens of such magistrates known from Phrygian bronzes of the period. The conventus system tied these cities administratively to Rome while leaving day-to-day civic currency largely in local hands.