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Æ25 - Antoninus Pius ΒΡΙοΥΛΕΙΤΩΝ ΖΕΥϹ οΛΥΜΠΙοϹ

Issuer Briula (Conventus of Ephesus)
Year 147-161
Type Standard circulation coin
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Obverse script Greek
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Reverse lettering ΒΡΙοΥΛΕΙΤΩΝ ΖΕΥϹ οΛΥΜΠΙοϹ
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Briula was a minor Lydian city whose civic coinage output was sparse enough that individual issues can be tied to specific magistracies with reasonable confidence. This type falls within the later reign of Antoninus Pius, a period when numerous small Asian cities leveraged imperial portraiture to assert civic status and secure favorable treatment within the conventus system — the Ephesian conventus being among the most administratively active in the province.

The Zeus Olympios reverse epithet was a deliberate civic choice, associating Briula with the Olympian cult at a moment when Hadrian's completion of the Athenian Olympieion had renewed pan-Hellenic enthusiasm for the cult across Asia Minor.

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