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Æ25 - Antoninus Pius ϹΤΡ ΙΟΥ ΙΟΥΛΙΑΝΟΥ ΙΕΡοΚΑΙϹΑΡΕΩΝ

Issuer Hierocaesarea (Conventus of Pergamum)
Year 138-161
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Weight 10.82 g
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Edge Plain
Mint Hierocaesarea, Lydia
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Hierocaesarea was a small Lydian city whose chief claim to imperial attention was its ancient sanctuary of Persian Artemis — a cult of genuinely Iranian origin, maintained by Magian priests, that had survived intact from the Achaemenid period into Roman times. The city received early favor from the Julio-Claudians precisely because of this sanctuary's exotic prestige, and its coins under Antoninus Pius reflect a municipal elite eager to advertise that connection to any Roman official passing through the Pergamene conventus.

The strategos Julius Julianus named in the obverse legend was a local magistrate responsible for the issue. Such eponymous magistrate coinages are the primary prosopographical record for provincial civic administration at this level.

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