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Æ24 - Marcus Aurelius ΑΙΤΗ ΦΛ ϹΗϹΤΥΛΙΑΝΟ (sic)
| Issuer | Stectorium (Conventus of Apamea) |
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| Year | 161-162 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | Youthful Dionysus depicted standing to the left in the open field, nude or lightly draped, extending a cantharus in his right hand and holding a long thyrsus diagonally in his left. The figure reflects the standard Hellenistic typology of the god as patron deity, a common choice for Phrygian civic bronzes. A partial Greek legend naming the local magistrate (strategus) Flavius Sestylianus runs around the periphery of the field, partially retrograde or abbreviated. The die engraving is typical of the Antonine provincial workshop of the Apamean conventus. |
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Stectorium was a minor Phrygian settlement granted the right to strike bronze coinage under Roman oversight through the Conventus of Apamea — a judicial and administrative district that bundled dozens of small Anatolian communities under a single Roman framework. The magistrate name preserved here, rendered ΑΙΤΗ ΦΛ ϹΗϹΤΥΛΙΑΝΟ, carries an obvious scribal or die-cutting error in its spelling, making this issue a minor epigraphic curiosity as much as a numismatic one. The date correlates with the very opening of Marcus Aurelius's reign, when joint rule with Lucius Verus had just been declared.