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Æ24 - Elagabalus ΕΠ ΦΑΒ ΓΑΙΟΥ ΑΡΧ Α Τ Β? ϹΑΙΤΤΗΝΩΝ
| Issuer | Saitta (Conventus of Sardis) |
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| Year | 218-222 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Emperor Elagabalus facing right, depicted from behind (rear view), with the paludamentum visible over the cuirass. The effigy is rendered in the characteristic provincial style of the Lydian mint at Saitta, with a circular Greek legend surrounding the imperial portrait in the field. |
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| Obverse lettering | ΑΥΤ Κ Μ ΑΥΡ ΑΝΤΩΝΕΙΝΟϹ (Translation: Emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus) |
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Saitta was a minor Lydian city whose civic coinage output under Elagabalus was modest — the magistrate name ΦΑΒ ΓΑΙΟΥ (Flavius Gaius) appears on only a handful of recorded types, making any survivor from this specific issue genuinely scarce. The question mark against the ethnic reading in the reference reflects an ongoing uncertainty in the corpus: the die alignment and flan preparation at Saitta during this reign were inconsistent enough that letter spacing sometimes obscures the full civic formula.