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Æ23 - Marcus Aurelius ΥΠΑΙΠΗΝωΝ
| Issuer | Hypaepa (Conventus of Ephesus) |
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| Year | 161-176 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Faustina II facing right, her hair elaborately coiffed in the Antonine fashion. The legend encircles the bust in Greek characters, reading ΦΑΥϹΤΕΙΝΑ ϹΕΒΑϹΤ, with the phi rendered in an unusual form (·I·). The portrait is rendered in the provincial Roman style typical of Lydian civic coinage of the mid-second century AD. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Hypaepa was a minor Lydian city in the Cayster River valley, administratively grouped under the conventus of Ephesus for judicial and civic purposes. Its bronze coinage under Marcus Aurelius was a local civic issue, struck not by imperial authority but by the city's own magistrates to serve small-denomination exchange within the community. The city was noted in antiquity for a sanctuary of the Persian goddess Anaitis, which likely sustained enough pilgrimage traffic to justify a functioning local bronze economy.