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Æ28 - Nero Ι ΤΩΝ ΤΩ ϹΑΡ
| Issuer | Hierapolis (Galatia-Cappadocia) |
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| Year | 54-68 |
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| Weight | 14.68 g |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed and laureate bust of Emperor Nero facing right, rendered in the provincial Greek style characteristic of Cappadocian mints. The portrait displays the youthful, slightly fleshy features associated with Neronian coinage. A circular Greek legend runs around the periphery of the flan, identifying the emperor by his full titulature. The flan is broad and irregularly struck, typical of Galatian-Cappadocian provincial bronze issues of the Julio-Claudian period. |
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| Obverse lettering | ΝΕΡΩΝΟϹ ΚΛΑΥΔΙΟΥ ΚΑΙϹΑΡΟϹ ϹΕΒΑϹΤΟΥ Β |
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Hierapolis in Cappadocia — distinct from the better-known Phrygian city of the same name — issued provincially under Nero during a period when the eastern mints were navigating careful displays of loyalty to a princeps whose relationship with the Senate was deteriorating sharply. The legend fragment ΤΩΝ ΤΩ ϹΑΡ is a compressed rendering of a dedicatory or civic formula acknowledging Caesar, a formulaic habit of Cappadocian civic bronze that helps distinguish local production from imperially directed coinage.