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Æ22 - Trajan Decius ΜΑΙΟΝΩΝ
| Issuer | Maeonia (Conventus of Sardis) |
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| Year | 249-251 |
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| Reference(s) | RPC IX#723 |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | Tyche standing left in full figure, draped, wearing a turreted crown, holding a ship's rudder in her lowered right hand and a cornucopia in her left arm. The figure is rendered in the provincial workshop style typical of Lydian civic coinage under the Decian dynasty. The Greek ethnic legend ΜΑΙΟΝΩΝ is distributed in the field to either side of the figure, within a dotted border. |
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Maeonia was a small Lydian settlement whose civic coinage output was modest even by provincial standards, and issues under Trajan Decius are among the rarer products of the Sardis conventus. Decius ruled for barely two years before dying at the Battle of Abritus in 251 AD — the first Roman emperor killed in battle against a foreign enemy — which hard-caps the window for any coin bearing his titulature.