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Æ27 - Trajan ϹΤΡ ΛΟ ΙΟ ΛΙΒΩΝΙΑΝΟΥ ϹΑΡΔΙΑΝΩΝ
| Issuer | Sardes (Conventus of Sardis) |
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| Year | 98-117 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse lettering | ΑΥ ΚΑΙ ΝΕΡ ΤΡΑΙΑΝΟϹ ϹΕΒ ΓΕΡ ΔΑΚΙΚΟϹ (Translation: Emperor Caesar Nerva Traianus Augustus Germanicus Dacicus) |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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Sardis sat at the western terminus of the Royal Road — the Persian imperial highway stretching nearly 2,700 kilometers to Susa — and retained enormous commercial weight under Roman administration as the seat of its own conventus juridicus. The magistrate name preserved in this issue, Λιβωνιανός, anchors the coin to a specific local strategos whose tenure under Trajan is otherwise unattested beyond the bronze civic coinage he authorized.