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| Issuer | Tabala, Lydia (civic mint) |
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| Year | 161-169 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed, laureate bust of Lucius Verus facing right, with short beard and curly hair rendered in the Antonine style. The effigy is depicted with draped shoulder visible at the truncation. A beaded border encircles the field. The Greek imperial legend runs around the periphery, identifying the co-emperor by his titles. |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | The goddess Cybele, wearing a turreted crown (kalathos), is depicted seated to the left on a throne with footstool, her body draped in a chiton. She extends her right hand forward holding a patera over a recumbent lion positioned to the left in the field, while her left arm rests upon a tympanum at her side. The civic ethnic legend ΤΑΒΑΛΕΩΝ is distributed around the periphery of the field in Greek characters. |
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