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Æ23 - Antoninus Pius ϹΚΟΠΕΛΙΑΝΟϹ ΖΕΥΞΙ ΤΗΜΕΝΟΘΥΡΕΥϹΙ
| Issuer | Temenothyrae (Conventus of Sardis) |
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| Year | 150-161 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Reverse description | Zeus Lydios standing facing left in full figure, clad in himation, extending his right hand to hold an eagle perched upon it, while his left hand grasps a long vertical sceptre. The deity is rendered in the standard Lydian-Phrygian civic type for Zeus, with the surrounding Greek legend naming the local magistrate Skopelianus and the civic ethnicon of Temenothyrae. The coin was issued under the authority of the strategus Skopelianus during the reign of Antoninus Pius. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Temenothyrae was a small Lydian city whose civic coinage depended entirely on the goodwill of local magistrates willing to fund issues at their own expense — a practice of euergetism that explains why the magistrate name ϹΚΟΠΕΛΙΑΝΟϹ ΖΕΥΞΙ appears so prominently. Without such private patronage, cities of this rank within the Sardis conventus often went years without striking bronze at all.