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Æ26 - Severus Alexander ΕΠ Ϲ Μ ΑΥΡ ΘΕΟΔΟϹΙΑΝΟΥ ΤΟ Β ΦΩΚΑΙΕ
| Issuer | Phocaea (Conventus of Smyrna) |
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| Year | 222-235 |
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| Weight | 8.10 g |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Julia Mamaea, mother of Severus Alexander, facing right, her hair elaborately waved and drawn back, without diadem. The effigy is rendered in the typical provincial style of the Severan period, with finely articulated drapery folds visible at the shoulder. The Greek legend encircles the bust in the field. |
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| Reverse description | Tyche, the personification of civic fortune, stands facing left in the centre of the field, wearing a kalathos (modius) upon her head. She holds a ship's rudder in her lowered right hand and a cornucopia in her left arm, symbols of prosperity and good fortune appropriate to the maritime city of Phocaea. The Greek magistrate legend surrounds the type, referencing the strategos Marcus Aurelius Theodosianos serving for the second time, with the ethnic of the Phocaeans. |
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| Mintage | ND (222-235) |
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