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Æ21 - Hadrian ΑΚΜΟΝΕΩΝ
| Issuer | Acmonea (Conventus of Apamea) |
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| Year | 117-138 |
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| Reference(s) | RPC III#2608 |
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| Reverse description | Cybele, the great Phrygian mother goddess, depicted seated to the right, wearing a polos, chiton, and peplos. She holds a long sceptre in her raised right hand, while her left hand rests upon a tympanum. A lion, her sacred companion, is shown standing to her right, also oriented to the right. The ethnic legend ΑΚΜΟΝΕΩΝ encircles the design, identifying the issuing civic authority of Acmonea. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΑΚΜΟΝΕΩΝ (Translation: of the Acmoneans) |
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Acmonea was a Phrygian city whose civic coinage under Hadrian reflects the broader administrative reorganization of the conventus system — the Roman judicial circuits that doubled as frameworks for provincial coin production. The Apamea conventus, to which Acmonea belonged, was one of the most productive in Asia Minor during the second century, yet individual city issues within it remain poorly documented, and die studies for this type are essentially absent from the major corpora.
RPC III #2608 assigns this piece tentatively, with surviving specimens countable in single digits.