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Æ26 - Marcus Aurelius ΚΙΔΡΑΜΗΝΩΝ
| Issuer | Cidrama (Conventus of Alabanda) |
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| Year | 161-169 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed, laureate bust of Lucius Verus facing right, with short beard, depicted in a draped and cuirassed manner consistent with provincial Roman coinage of the period. The effigy is rendered in moderate relief typical of Carian civic issues. The surrounding field carries a Greek imperial titulature legend distributed around the periphery. |
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| Mintage | ND (161-169) |
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Cidrama was a minor Phrygian city whose civic coinage under Marcus Aurelius represents one of the few material traces the settlement left at all — it does not appear in Pliny's geographical lists and is known to modern scholarship almost entirely through its coins. The conventus of Alabanda grouped several such small communities for administrative purposes under Roman Asia, and the right to strike bronze issues was a privilege jealously maintained even by towns of marginal political weight.
The ethnic ΚΙΔΡΑΜΗΝΩΝ itself has helped scholars pin down the city's approximate location in the Morsynus river valley.