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Æ25 - Elagabalus ΙΟΥΛΙΕΩΝ ΓΟΡΔΗΝΩΝ
| Issuer | Iulia Gordus (Conventus of Sardis) |
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| Year | 218-222 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Reverse description | Athena standing facing, head turned to the right, depicted in full figure on a ground line. She holds a large round shield resting on the ground in her left hand and raises a spear aloft in her right hand in a martial posture. The goddess is rendered in a long chiton and aegis, with a crested Corinthian helmet on her head. The civic legend of Iulia Gordus encircles the type in Greek characters around the periphery of the flan. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΙΟΥΛΙΕΩΝ ΓΟΡΔΗΝΩΝ (Translation: of the Julian Gordians) |
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Iulia Gordus was a small Lydian city whose coins are rarely encountered outside specialist collections. During Elagabalus's brief, chaotic reign, provincial mints across the conventus of Sardis continued issuing bronze largely on civic initiative — Rome's central administration showed little interest in regulating the output of minor Anatolian towns while the emperor was preoccupied with introducing the cult of the sun god Elagabal to a deeply resistant Roman senate.
The ethnic ΙΟΥΛΙΕΩΝ ΓΟΡΔΗΝΩΝ identifies the issuing community precisely, the Julian element reflecting the city's honorific connection to the Julio-Claudian dynasty, likely formalized centuries earlier under Augustus or Claudius.