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Æ24 - Elagabalus ΙΕΡΑΠΟΛΕΙΤΩΝ ΝΕΩΚΟΡΩΝ
| Issuer | City of Hierapolis (Conventus of Cibyra) |
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| Year | 218-222 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Radiate and draped bust of Apollo Lairbenos facing right, with prominent radiate crown rendered as divergent rays above the head. The bust is depicted with flowing drapery over the shoulder, executed in the provincial hammered style typical of Phrygian civic coinage of the Severan period. The Greek legend ΛΑΙΡΙΒΗΝΟϹ appears in the field around the bust, identifying the deity as the local syncretic form of Apollo venerated at Hierapolis. A dotted border encircles the entire design. |
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| Reverse description | A seated female figure, identified tentatively as a syncretic Hygieia-Cybele type, is shown facing left upon a throne or seat, wearing a kalathos (modius) upon her head. She extends a patera toward a serpent coiling at her feet, while her other arm rests upon a tympanum. Behind her, to the left, stands the youthful healing deity Telesphoros, rendered frontally in his characteristic hooded cloak. The reverse legend ΙΕΡΑΠΟΛΕΙΤΩΝ ΝΕΩΚΟΡΩΝ fills the field around the composition, proclaiming the neocorate status of the city of Hierapolis. The design is enclosed within a dotted border. |
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| Mint | Hierapolis, Phrygia |
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