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Æ26 - Hadrian ΕΠΙ ΑΠΕΛΛΟΥ ΓΡ ΤΡΑΛΛΙΑΝΩΝ
| Issuer | Tralles (Conventus of Ephesus) |
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| Year | 117-138 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Reverse lettering | ΕΠΙ ΑΠΕΛΛΟΥ ΓΡ ΤΡΑΛΛΙΑΝΩΝ (Translation: under Apelles, grammateus of the Trallians) |
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| Mintage | ND (117-138) |
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Tralles, a prosperous city in the Maeander valley, had suffered near-total destruction in the earthquake of 26 BC and was rebuilt substantially with Augustan support — subsequently renaming itself Caesareia for a period before reverting. By Hadrian's reign it had recovered fully, and local magistrates like the grammateus Apellos were using bronze civic coinage as a visible instrument of municipal ambition. The grammateus title, essentially a city secretary, carried genuine administrative weight in the provincial cities of Asia and could rotate annually, making the appearance of a named official on coinage a fixed moment in an otherwise fluid civic calendar.