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Æ24 - Gordian III ΚΑΙΚΟϹ ϹΤΡΑΤΟΝΙΚΕΩΝ
| Issuer | Stratonicea Hadrianopolis (Conventus of Pergamum) |
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| Year | 238-244 |
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| Reference(s) | RPC VII.1#188A |
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| Reverse description | The river god Kaikos depicted reclining to the left, his semi-draped figure leaning upon a large water urn from which a stream flows. He holds a reed in his right hand, a conventional attribute of river deities in Greek and Roman provincial iconography. The legend ΚΑΙΚΟϹ above and ϹΤΡΑΤΟΝΙΚΕΩΝ in the exergue identifies the deity and the issuing city in Greek characters. The composition follows the standard Hellenistic-Roman convention for personified river gods in the coinage of Mysia. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Stratonicea ad Caicum — not to be confused with the better-known Stratonicea in Caria — was a small Lydian city whose coins under Gordian III are rarely encountered. The city's double ethnic legend, referencing both its Macedonian colonial identity and its Hadrianic refoundation, reflects a deliberate civic claim to antiquity and imperial favor that small Asian poleis leveraged aggressively during the third century to secure minting privileges.
The reference VII.1#188A places this among the rarer documented varieties of the city's output. Stratonicea ad Caicum struck comparatively little bronze under any emperor.