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Æ23 - Elagabalus ΛΑΟΔΙΚΕΩΝ ΝΕΩΚΟΡΩΝ
| Issuer | Laodicea ad Lycum (Conventus of Cibyra) |
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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 | Winged Nemesis standing facing with head turned to the left, holding a bridle or cubit-rod in her outstretched right hand and drawing her garment aside at the chest with her left hand, a gesture symbolic of measuring retributive justice. A wheel, her attribute of fate and retribution, is depicted at her feet. The figure is rendered in the local provincial style with clearly delineated wings. The Greek neocorate legend encircles the type in the field. |
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Laodicea ad Lycum earned the title neokoros — warden of the imperial cult — and jealously advertised it on civic coinage throughout the third century. The designation carried real political weight: it meant the city had been granted the right to maintain a temple to the reigning emperor, a status competed for aggressively among the cities of the Lycus valley. Under Elagabalus, whose own religious program was deeply controversial in Rome, the eastern provincials had little reason to share the Senate's discomfort — imperial cult honors were civic currency, and Laodicea collected them.
The conventus of Cibyra grouped several Phrygian and Lycian cities under a single Roman judicial circuit, and Laodicea dominated it financially and administratively throughout the Severan period.