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Æ26 - Marcus Aurelius ΔΟΚΙΜΕΩΝ ΜΑΚ (Δ[)
| Issuer | Mint of Docimeum (Conventus of Synnada) |
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| Year | 163-165 |
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| Weight | 10.63 g |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | Nude Apollo standing facing, head turned to the right, wearing a laurel wreath; his raised right hand holds a laurel branch, while his extended right arm rests upon an overturned vase set within the bowl of a tripod. Apollo's left arm leans upon a bow, and a raven is depicted walking up his left arm — an attribute closely associated with the god. The tripod is entwined by a serpent. The reverse legend ΔΟΚΙΜΕΩΝ ΜΑΚΕ(Δ[ ) in Greek identifies the issuing city of Docimeum with the honorific Macedonian epithet, distributed in the field. |
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Docimeum, in Phrygia, was one of the most important marble quarrying centers in the Roman world — its white and purple-veined pavonazzetto stone quarried for imperial building projects across the empire. The city's coins from the Antonine period reflect its prosperity and its tight relationship with Roman administrative structures, issued under the conventus system that organized judicial and civic affairs across Asia Minor. The abbreviated ethnic ΔΟΚΙΜΕΩΝ ΜΑΚ references the Macedonian settler heritage the city claimed, a distinction maintained on coinage well into the imperial period.