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Æ23 - Domitian ΕΠΙ ΚΛ ΜΕΛΙΤΩΝΟϹ ΓΡ ΤΟ Β, ΤΡΑΛΛΙ
| Issuer | Tralles (Conventus of Ephesus) |
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| Year | 81-96 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Reverse description | A goddess, likely Hera or Tyche, standing in full figure facing left, her drapery rendered in flowing folds. She extends her right hand holding a patera in the act of libation, while her left arm cradles a cornucopia. The encircling Greek legend names the local magistrate and civic authority responsible for the coin's issue. |
| Reverse script | Greek |
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Tralles was one of the most prosperous cities in the Lydian interior, and its civic bronze issues under Domitian reflect a local administration eager to advertise its relationship with the emperor. The magistrate named in the legend — Claudius Meliton, serving in his second term as grammateus — is attested on a small cluster of die-linked issues, making him one of the better-documented civic officials in the Trallian sequence. The grammateus held responsibility for the city's official correspondence and record-keeping, and his name on coinage signals the office carried genuine civic prestige.