Æ21 - Elagabalus ΔΙΟϹΙΕΡΕΙΤΩΝ

Dios Hieron was a minor Lydian city whose civic coinage under Elagabalus represents one of the more obscure outputs of the Ephesian conventus. The city's name — "Sacred to Zeus" — reflects its religious identity, though it produced coins only sporadically under the Severan emperors. Elagabalus's brief, turbulent reign generated a surprisingly broad provincial output as cities competed for imperial favor from an emperor notoriously susceptible to flattery and religious spectacle.

VI#11063 is a sparsely documented type; recorded specimens are few.