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Æ24 - Septimius Severus ΕΠ ΙΕΡΑΚΟϹ ΥΠΑΙΠΗΝΩΝ
| Issuer | Hypaepa (Conventus of Ephesus) |
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| Year | 193-211 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Plautilla facing right, her hair elaborately coiffed and bound with a diadem, rendered in the provincial style characteristic of the Ephesian conventus. The effigy is depicted with fine drapery folds visible at the truncation of the shoulder. The Greek legend encircles the bust in the field, partially visible along the left margin of the flan. |
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| Reverse description | Artemis Anaïtis portrayed standing facing, her figure fully veiled and heavily draped in long robes falling in dense vertical folds to the ground, arms extended at her sides in the characteristic hieratic pose of this Anatolian cult image. The goddess is depicted in the ancient xoanon tradition associated with her sanctuary at Hypaepa. The encircling Greek legend names the local magistrate Hierax and the civic ethnicon of the Hypaepians, distributed around the field. |
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Hypaepa was a small Lydian town in the Cayster River valley whose civic coinage under Septimius Severus reflects the intense municipal competition for imperial favor that characterized the early Severan period. Cities throughout the Ephesian conventus rushed to issue bronze with the new emperor's name following the civil wars of 193 AD — the Year of the Five Emperors — partly to signal loyalty and partly to secure the commercial advantages that came with recognized imperial endorsement. The magistrate name rendered ΙΕΡΑΚΟϹ in the legend identifies a local strategos or grammateus otherwise unattested in the epigraphic record.