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Æ26 - Trajan ΕΠΙ ϹΕΙΛΩΝΟϹ
| Issuer | Maeonia (Conventus of Sardis) |
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| Year | 98-117 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Athena facing left, wearing a crested Corinthian helmet and aegis adorned with the gorgoneion. The goddess is depicted in the local Lydian provincial style characteristic of the Trajanic period. The ethnic legend ΜΑΙΟΝΩΝ curves around the field, identifying the issuing city of Maeonia. The flan is slightly irregular, as typical of provincial bronze issues of Asia Minor. |
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| Obverse lettering | ΜΑΙΟΝΩΝ (Translation: of the Maeonians) |
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Maeonia was a minor inland city of Lydia whose civic coinage under Trajan consistently names local magistrates in the inscription — ϹΕΙΛΩΝΟϹ identifies the strategos or grammateus responsible for this issue, a standard accountability mechanism in provincial bronze production that also makes die-linking across magistracies possible for researchers working the Lydian series.