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Æ23 - Elagabalus ΕΠΙ ΑΥΡ ΧΑΡΙΞΕΝΟΥ ϹΤΡΑ ΥΠΑΙΠΗΝΩΝ
| Issuer | Hypaepa (Conventus of Ephesus) |
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| Year | 218-222 |
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| Diameter | 23 mm |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | Frontal view of a tetrastyle temple with four columns, the pediment containing what appears to be a shield or similar decorative element. Within the intercolumniation, a conical lighted altar is depicted, likely representing the sacred cult object associated with the local deity of Hypaepa. The architectural rendering follows conventions common to provincial temple-type reverses of Asia Minor, with the structure shown in schematic elevation. The Greek legend of the magistrate and civic ethnic is distributed around the field. |
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Hypaepa was a small Lydian city whose coins survive in embarrassingly small numbers — most known specimens are one-offs or appear in single-digit census counts. The magistrate name rendered here, Aurelius Charixenos, marks him as a Roman citizen of likely recent enfranchisement, probably within a generation of the Constitutio Antoniniana of 212 AD, which flooded the eastern provinces with new Aurelii. He served as strategos under a teenage emperor whose four-year reign generated an unusual volume of provincial bronze across the Ephesian conventus.