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Æ23 - Caracalla ϹΑΜΙΩΝ
| Issuer | Samos (Conventus of Miletus) |
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| Year | 198-217 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Reverse description | The river god Imbrasos depicted reclining to the left, his mature bearded figure semi-recumbent upon a water urn from which a stream flows. He holds a peacock in his right hand, an attribute emblematic of Samos, and a cornucopia in his left. The ethnic legend ϹΑΜΙΩΝ appears in the field, identifying the issuing civic authority. |
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| Reverse lettering | ϹΑΜΙΩΝ (Translation: of the Samians) |
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Samos had been a free city under Roman administration since Augustus stripped it of that status briefly before restoring it — a political favor the island's elite remembered and cultivated. Provincial bronze of this conventus was struck locally under magistrates whose names occasionally survive on the coinage, though this issue carries only the civic ethnic ϹΑΜΙΩΝ, placing civic identity ahead of any individual magistrate's claim to prestige.