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Æ27 - Elagabalus ΤΙΒΕ? ϹΥΡ Π ΚΛΑ ...? ΕΤ Ϲ
| Issuer | Tiberias (Judaea) |
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| Year | 218-219 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Emperor Elagabalus facing right, seen from the front, with the imperial effigy rendered in the provincial Roman style typical of Judaean civic coinage. The portrait occupies the central field, with a partially legible Greek legend disposed around the periphery. The coin exhibits heavy green patination and surface encrustation consistent with prolonged burial, partially obscuring the legend and fine portrait details. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Tiberias, founded by Herod Antipas around 20 AD and named for the reigning emperor, held the unusual distinction of being a city observant Jews initially refused to inhabit — it had been built over a cemetery, rendering it ritually unclean. The city nonetheless became a major administrative center and minted civic bronzes well into the third century. The partial legend on this piece likely references a local civic era reckoning, and the fragmentary state of the inscription has left die-linkers and epigraphers working from a very thin corpus for this specific Elagabalus-era Tiberian issue.