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Æ28 - Caracalla ΜΙΔΑΕΩΝ
| Issuer | Midaeum (Conventus of Synnada) |
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| Year | 198-217 |
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| Weight | 10.95 g |
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| Obverse description | Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Emperor Caracalla facing right, viewed from the rear, rendered in the characteristic provincial style of Phrygia. The emperor's portrait displays a short beard and individualized facial features consistent with his known iconography. The obverse legend encircles the bust in Greek characters. The overall execution reflects the workmanship of a Phrygian provincial mint of the early third century AD. |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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Midaeum was a minor Phrygian city whose civic coinage output was modest even by provincial standards, and issues attributable to Caracalla's reign are among the thinner parts of the local sequence. The city fell within the conventus of Synnada, the administrative district through which Roman judicial and fiscal authority was channeled across central Phrygia — a region whose bronze coinages were heavily influenced by the explosion of civic minting that followed the Severan dynasty's aggressive cultivation of eastern provincial loyalty.
V.2 #27051 places this piece within Voegtli's corpus, the primary reference for Phrygian civic bronze.