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Æ22 - Trajan ΝΑΚΟΛΕΩΝ
| Issuer | Nacolea (Conventus of Synnada) |
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| Year | 98-117 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | Asclepius, the god of medicine, depicted standing facing with head turned to the left. His right hand rests upon a serpent-entwined staff (the caduceus of Asclepius), the canonical attribute of the deity in Greco-Roman provincial coinage. The figure is rendered in a static, hieratic style typical of Phrygian civic bronze issues, set within a beaded border, with the ethnic legend of the Nacoleans inscribed in the field. |
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Nacolea was a minor Phrygian city whose civic coinage under Trajan falls within the administratively consolidated conventus of Synnada — a Roman judicial district that grouped smaller communities for legal and financial purposes. The city's Greek ethnic on the coin, ΝΑΚΟΛΕΩΝ, reflects the persistence of Hellenic civic identity in interior Anatolia well into the second century, even as Roman provincial administration tightened its grip on the region's institutions.