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Æ26 - Caracalla ΑΚΜΟΝΕΩΝ
| Issuer | Acmonea (Conventus of Apamea) |
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| Year | 198-217 |
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| Reference(s) | RPC V.2#238 |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | Zeus enthroned to the left, his body draped, extending his right hand to offer a patera in a gesture of libation, while his left hand rests upon a tall sceptre. The figure is rendered in the classical Hellenistic tradition common to Phrygian civic coinage. The ethnic legend ΑΚΜΟΝΕΩΝ is distributed around the field, within a dotted border. |
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Acmoneia, a Phrygian city of modest political standing, nonetheless maintained an active civic mint through the Severan period — issuing bronze largely to facilitate local exchange and, crucially, to display loyalty to the imperial house. Caracalla appears on civic bronzes from dozens of Anatolian cities during his co-reign with Septimius Severus and later sole rule, a period when provincial mints essentially competed in demonstrating devotion.
The Conventus of Apamea grouped Acmoneia administratively under the assize center at Apamea, where a Roman magistrate periodically held court. V.2#238 places this type within von Aulock's systematic cataloguing of Phrygian civic coinage — a reference corpus that remains the primary authority for this region's issues.