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Æ24 - Septimius Severus ΤΙ Κ ΖΗΝΩΝ ΤΙΜΕΛΗϹ ΑΦΡΟΔΙϹΙΕΩΝ
| Issuer | Aphrodisias (Conventus of Alabanda) |
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| Year | 193-211 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Laureate and draped bust of Demos facing right, rendered in the civic personification tradition of Asia Minor provincial coinage. The head is adorned with a laurel wreath, and the drapery is visible at the truncation of the shoulder. The legend ΔΗΜΟϹ appears in the field, identifying the personification as the People of Aphrodisias. The design is enclosed within a beaded border. The portrait style is consistent with the civic issues of the Severan period. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Aphrodisias held an unusual status in the Roman provincial system — the city had obtained a formal declaration of freedom (eleutheria) and tax immunity (ateleia) from Augustus himself, privileges repeatedly reaffirmed by subsequent emperors. The magistrate name in this issue, Ti. Cl. Zenon Timeles, places it within a local civic aristocracy that leveraged such imperial favor into lasting epigraphic and numismatic visibility. Zenon's family name suggests Roman citizenship acquired under the Julio-Claudians, a common pattern among Aphrodisian elites who cultivated connections to Rome across generations.