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| Issuer | Priene (Conventus of Miletus) |
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| Year | 253-260 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse description | Draped and diademed bust of Empress Salonina facing right, set upon a crescent. The effigy displays carefully rendered drapery at the shoulder, with the diadem visible across the brow. A Greek legend encircles the bust within a beaded border, identifying the empress with her honorific epithet Chrysogone Augusta. |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | Full-length figure of the lunar deity Mên standing left, wearing a Phrygian cap and draped garment, with a crescent set upon his shoulders. In his extended right hand he holds a patera, while his left hand grasps a long sceptre. The divided Greek legend naming the local archon and the civic ethnonym of Priene runs around the periphery within a beaded border. |
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