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Æ25 - Elagabalus ϹΑΡΔΙΑΝΩΝ Β ΝΕΩΚΟΡΩΝ
| Issuer | Mint of Sardes (Conventus of Sardis) |
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| Year | 218-222 |
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| Diameter | 25 mm |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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| Mint | Sardes (Sardis), Lydia |
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Sardis held the title of neokoros — warden of the imperial cult — twice by this period, a distinction aggressively competed for among cities of the Asian conventus and displayed prominently in civic coinage as a mark of Rome's formal favor. Elagabalus, whose brief and chaotic reign ended with his murder at eighteen, was nonetheless a productive period for provincial bronze issues across Asia Minor, as cities scrambled to court an unpredictable emperor whose religious eccentricities did nothing to slow the machinery of civic honorifics.