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Æ25 - Antoninus Pius ΙΟΥΛΙΕΩΝ ΤΩΝ ΚΑΙ ΛΑΟΔΙΚΕΩΝ ΚΑϹ ϘΡ
| Issuer | Laodicea ad Mare |
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| Year | 138-161 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | Draped bust of Tyche of Laodicea facing left, wearing a turreted mural crown upon her head and adorned with bunches of grapes at the shoulder, emblematic of the city's renowned viticulture. The civic legend encircles the field, identifying the issuing community as the Julians also called Laodiceans, with the Greek era date ΚΑϹ ϘΡ appended. The composition is characteristic of Syrian provincial coinage celebrating the local tutelary deity. The engraving style is typical of the eastern mint workshops active during the reign of Antoninus Pius. |
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Laodicea ad Mare, the principal port city of Roman Syria, held a dual civic identity that this coin's legend makes explicit — the ΙΟΥΛΙΕΩΝ ΤΩΝ ΚΑΙ ΛΑΟΔΙΚΕΩΝ formula acknowledging both the older Seleucid foundation and the Iulian refoundation, likely under Julius Caesar or Augustus. The city's loyalty to Rome was commercial as much as political; its harbor made it indispensable to grain and military logistics across the eastern Mediterranean. The era date encoded in ΚΑϹ ϘΡ anchors this piece precisely within the local Caesarean reckoning, a dating system the city maintained stubbornly alongside imperial regnal references.