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Æ22 - Marcus Aurelius ΜΑΓΝΗΤΩΝ
| Issuer | Magnesia ad Maeandrum (Conventus of Miletus) |
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| Year | 161-169 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | Isis standing facing, dressed in long robes, crowned with a lotus flower upon her head; she holds a sistrum in her raised right hand and a situla (sacred bucket) in her left hand, emblems of her cult. The ethnic legend ΜΑΓΝΗΤΩΝ is distributed around the field, identifying the issuing city of Magnesia ad Maeandrum. The figure is rendered in the typical provincial bronze style of the Antonine period, set within a slightly recessed field. |
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Magnesia ad Maeandrum's civic bronze issues under Marcus Aurelius fall within the early co-regency period with Lucius Verus, when provincial mints across the Milesian conventus were navigating the administrative novelty of dual emperorship. The city had long traded on its mythological founding credentials and its association with the cult of Artemis Leucophryene, and civic bronze production under the Antonines was as much a statement of local institutional continuity as anything else.
The Milesian conventus grouping placed Magnesia within a jurisdiction that handled some of the most commercially active territory in Asia Minor, the Maeander valley being a principal artery for inland trade.