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Æ28 - Elagabalus ΠΡΟΥϹΑΕΩΝ
| Issuer | Prusa ad Olympum (Bithynia and Pontus) |
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| Year | 218-222 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse lettering | ΙΟΥΛΙΑ ΚΟΡΝΗΛΙΑ ΠΑΥΛΑ ϹΕΒ (Translation: Julia Cornelia Paula Augusta) |
| Reverse description | Front elevation of a hexastyle temple depicted in perspective, with six columns supporting an entablature and pediment. Within the intercolumniation, Zeus is seated facing left, holding a long sceptre in his left hand and a patera in his outstretched right hand. The type reflects the importance of the local Zeus cult at Prusa ad Olympum. The ethnic legend of the Prusaeans is inscribed around the reverse field. |
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Prusa ad Olympum — modern Bursa, at the foot of Mount Uludağ — was a prosperous Bithynian city whose civic bronze issues under Elagabalus reflect a mint actively courting imperial favor. Elagabalus' short reign was marked by his insistence on elevating the cult of Elagabal above Rome's traditional gods, a religious program that alienated the Senate almost immediately and contributed directly to his murder at eighteen by the Praetorian Guard in 222.
Provincial bronzes from his reign are notably scarcer than those of Caracalla or Septimius Severus — the city workshops had barely four years to produce them.