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Æ25 - Antoninus Pius ϹΤΡ ΙΟΥ ΙΟΥΛΙΑΝΟΥ ΙΕΡοΚΑΙϹΑΡΕΩΝ
| Issuer | Hierocaesarea (Conventus of Pergamum) |
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| 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.