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Æ23 - Caracalla ΕΠΙ ΑϹΚΛΗΠΙΑΔΟΥ ΑΡΧ Α Β ΒΑΓΗΝΩΝ
| Issuer | Bagis (Conventus of Sardis) |
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| Year | 198-217 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Reverse description | Hygieia stands to the right, extending a patera in her right hand to feed a serpent coiling upward before her; facing her stands Asclepius, depicted frontally with head turned to the left, his right hand resting on a serpent-entwined staff (kerykeion). The composition presents the two principal deities of healing in a confronted arrangement, a motif common in the civic bronze coinage of the Lydian conventus. The Greek magistrate legend is distributed around the type in the field. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Bagis was a minor Lydian city in the conventus of Sardis whose civic coinage is poorly documented even by the standards of provincial Asia Minor. The archon named in the legend — Asklepiades, holding a first-and-second archonship — represents the kind of double magistracy attested in several Lydian cities during this period, likely reflecting local political consolidation rather than anything imposed from Rome. Issues attributable to Bagis are genuinely scarce in the reference literature, and V.2#48295 is among the few firmly assigned specimens tying a named local magistrate to this city under Caracalla's reign.