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Æ25 - Philip I ΙΕΡΑΠΟΛΕΙΤΩΝ, ΑΚΤΙΑ
| Issuer | City of Hierapolis (Conventus of Cibyra) |
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| Year | 244-249 |
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| Diameter | 25 mm |
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| Obverse description | Diademed and draped bust of Otacilia Severa facing right, her hair arranged in horizontal ridged waves and drawn back, with a stephane visible atop the head. The effigy is rendered in the typical provincial style of the Philippian era, with the empress depicted in regal attire. A Greek legend surrounds the bust within a dotted border. |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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Hierapolis in Phrygia — not to be confused with its more famous Syrian namesake — was a minor but commercially active city whose coin issues under Philip I cluster tightly around the Aktia festival cycle. The ΑΚΤΙΑ legend references games held in honor of Augustus's victory at Actium, a celebration that many Asian cities perpetuated for centuries as a means of demonstrating loyalty to Rome and maintaining festival prestige within their conventus.
The Cibyra conventus was among the smaller administrative groupings in Asia Minor, and civic bronze from its member cities rarely achieved wide distribution beyond local exchange.