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Æ22 - Antoninus Pius ΕΠΙ ΔΙοΔΩΡοΥ ΜΑΙοΝΩΝ
| Issuer | Maeonia (Conventus of Sardis) |
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| Year | 147-161 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | Demeter depicted standing left in the field, clad in chiton and himation, her right hand extending downward holding poppies and two ears of grain, and her left hand grasping a long vertical sceptre. The goddess is rendered in the classical provincial style associated with Lydian civic bronzes. The encircling legend names the local magistrate and the issuing city. The composition is typical of grain-deity reverse types employed at Maeonian civic mints. |
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Maeonia was a minor Lydian city whose civic coinage depended almost entirely on the tenure of individual Roman magistrates — the ΕΠΙ formula naming Diodorus here marks him as the presiding authority under whom this issue was authorized, a reminder that local bronze production in the Sardis conventus was bureaucratically tethered to Rome in ways the larger Asian mints were not. These small civic bronzes circulated within a tight regional economy; few left Lydia at all.