Æ23 - Elagabalus ΛΕΒΕΔΙΩΝ

Lebedus was one of the twelve cities of the Ionian League but had been largely overshadowed by neighboring Ephesus for centuries by the time Elagabalus came to power. The city's coinage under his reign is sparse, and civic bronzes bearing the ΛΕΒΕΔΙΩΝ ethnic are scarce enough that die linkages across known examples have not been fully mapped in the standard references.

Elagabalus himself reigned just four years before being murdered by the Praetorian Guard alongside his mother Julia Soaemias in 222 AD, their bodies dragged through Rome's streets.