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Æ25 - Gordian III ΞΕΝΟΦΙΛΟϹ ΑΡΧ Α ΤΟ Β ΤΗΜΕΝΟΘΥΡΕΥϹΙ
| Issuer | Temenothyrae (Conventus of Sardis) |
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| Year | 238-244 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Temenos, the mythological founder of the city, facing right, his hair arranged in a diadem, set within a dotted border. The effigy is rendered in the Hellenistic provincial style typical of Lydian civic coinage, with careful attention to drapery folds over the right shoulder. The circular Greek legend surrounds the bust in the field. |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | Tyche, the personification of civic fortune, standing in three-quarter view facing left, wearing a turreted crown, her right hand extending downward to hold a ship's rudder and her left arm cradling a cornucopia. The figure is rendered in the conventional provincial Hellenistic style, with drapery falling in vertical folds. A circular Greek magistrate's legend encircles the type within a dotted border, naming the local archon Xenophilos and his second term of office. |
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