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Æ26 - Trajan Decius ΚΙΒΥΡΑΤωΝ
| Issuer | Cibyra (Conventus of Cibyra) |
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| Year | 249-251 |
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| Diameter | 26 mm |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | The ethnic legend of the Cibyrates is inscribed in multiple lines within a laurel wreath, the wreath composed of tied leafy branches encircling the central field. The inscription identifies the issuing civic authority and is rendered in Greek capitals. The wreath border is the sole decorative framing element, consistent with the civic bronze coinage of Cibyra under the Roman provincial series. |
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Cibyra occupied an unusual administrative position in Asia Minor — though geographically Phrygian, it was made the seat of its own conventus under Roman reorganization, governing a mixed Lydian, Pisidian, and Lydian-inflected population. Coins struck under Trajan Decius for this mint reflect a city still asserting provincial civic identity at a moment when the emperor was almost entirely preoccupied with Gothic incursions across the Danube. Decius died at the Battle of Abritus in 251, making his entire reign — and everything struck under it — a product of roughly two years of near-continuous military emergency.