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Æ24 - Antoninus Pius ΑΙΖΑΝΕΙΤΩΝ
| Uitgever | Aezani (Conventus of Sardis) |
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| Jaar | 147-161 |
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| Vorm | Round (irregular) |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | Bare laureate head of Emperor Antoninus Pius facing right, rendered in typical provincial style with softly modelled features. The portrait shows the emperor with short hair crowned by a laurel wreath, the neck truncation visible at the base. The encircling Greek legend ΑΥΤΟ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ ΑΝΤΩΝΕΙΝΟϹ runs around the periphery of the flan. The die work is characteristic of the Phrygian civic mint tradition, exhibiting a broad, slightly flat relief. |
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| Schrift keerzijde | Greek |
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| Aanvullende informatie |
Aezani, in the highlands of Phrygia, was a prosperous city whose civic coinage under Antoninus Pius reflects the broader boom in provincial bronze issues that accompanied the emperor's unusually long and stable reign. The city fell within the conventus of Sardis — one of the Roman judicial circuits through which the governor of Asia administered the province — and local magistrates used coin issues partly to signal institutional loyalty to that administrative structure. No military emergency, no succession crisis, no fiscal shock drove this piece into production. It was simply civic normalcy, struck in a Phrygian city best known today for its exceptionally well-preserved Temple of Zeus.