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Æ26 - Severus Alexander ϹΤΡ ΑΥΡ ΕΡΜΕΙΟΥ ΤΗΜΝΕΙΤΩΝ
| Issuer | Temnus (Conventus of Smyrna) |
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| Year | 222-235 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Julia Mamaea, Augusta and mother of Severus Alexander, facing right, her hair elaborately coiffed and bound with a diadem, rendered in the provincial Greek style typical of Aeolian mint output. The portrait displays finely worked drapery at the shoulder and chest. The encircling Greek legend identifies the empress by her imperial title and runs along the periphery of the flan. |
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| Reverse description | Asclepius, the god of medicine, depicted standing facing, his head turned slightly to the right, draped in a long himation, leaning upon his distinctive serpent-entwined staff (the kerykeion of healing). The figure is rendered in the conventional divine iconography of provincial Greek coinage of the Severan period. The encircling Greek legend in the field records the name of the local strategos and the civic ethnic of Temnus. |
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| Reverse lettering | ϹΤΡ ΑΥΡ ΕΡΜΕΙΟΥ ΤΗΜΝΕΙΤΩΝ (Translation: under strategos Aurelius Hermeias, of the Temneans) |
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