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Æ24 - Gordian III ΕΠΙ ΡΟΥΦΕΙΝΟΥ ϹΑΡΔΙΑΝΩΝ Β ΝΕΩ (ΟΡΩΝ)
| Issuer | Sardes (Conventus of Sardis) |
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| Year | 238-244 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | A bucranium (ox skull) and a lighted torch are depicted at the centre of the field, both emblems associated with religious sacrifice and the neocorate cult honours of Sardis. The design is encircled by a laurel wreath, symbolising the sacred and civic status of the city. The surrounding Greek legend records the name of the local magistrate Rufinus and the city's twice-granted neocorate title, affirming Sardis's prestigious standing within the imperial cult hierarchy. |
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Sardes held the rare distinction of being a twice-neokoros city — the Β ΝΕΩ in the legend acknowledges that honor, granted for maintaining two imperial cult temples. The office of Rufinus named in the inscription places this coin within a specific magistracy, though the individual himself remains difficult to pin down against surviving epigraphic records from the Sardian conventus.