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Æ23 - Antoninus Pius ΜΗΝοΦΑΝΤοϹ ΙΕΡ ΑΝΕΘ ΤΑΒΑΛΕΩΝ
| Issuer | Tabala, Lydia (civic mint under Roman Imperial authority) |
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| Year | 147-161 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Cybele, turreted and draped, seated left upon a throne, extending her right hand to hold a patera over a lion standing or crouching before her, while her left arm rests upon a tympanum. The composition reflects the standard iconography of the Magna Mater as venerated across Lydian civic coinage. The Greek legend of the magistrate and city ethnicon runs around the periphery of the field. |
| Reverse script | Greek |
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Tabala was a minor Lydian city whose civic coinage under Antoninus Pius is poorly documented in ancient literary sources, surviving almost exclusively through the coins themselves. The magistrate name ΜΗΝΟΦΑΝΤΟΣ — Menophantos — appears on a small number of known specimens from this city, suggesting a short tenure or limited issuing authority. Provincial civic bronzes of this type were struck not by imperial mandate but at local initiative, typically to fund municipal needs or mark civic pride, and Tabala's output across the entire Antonine period remains among the thinner documented series in Lydian numismatics.