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Æ24 - Gordian III ϹΕΒΑϹΤΗΝΩΝ

Issuer	Sebaste (Conventus of Apamea)
Year	238-244
Type	Standard circulation coin
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Obverse description	Draped bust of the personified Roman Senate facing right, depicted as a diademed female effigy with elaborately rendered drapery visible at the shoulder and chest. The bust is rendered in a provincial style characteristic of Phrygian civic coinage of the mid-third century AD. The circular legend ΙΕΡΑ ϹΥΝΚΛΗΤΟϹ (Sacred Senate) surrounds the bust, partially visible around the periphery of the flan.
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Reverse description	Standing figure of the lunar deity Mên facing right, with a crescent moon at his shoulders, holding a long sceptre in his right hand and a pine cone in his left. His left foot rests upon a bucranium (ox skull), a characteristic attribute linking the deity to sacrificial ritual. The reverse legend ϹΕΒΑϹΤΗΝΩΝ (of the Sebastans) is inscribed in the field, identifying the issuing civic community of Sebaste in Phrygia.
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