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Æ29 - Marcus Aurelius ΟΚΟΚΛΙΕΩΝ ΒΡΟΥΖΗΝΩΝ ΟΜΟΝΟΙΑ
| Issuer | Ococleia (Conventus of Apamea) |
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| Year | 177-179 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse description | Youthful laureate and draped bust of Commodus as Caesar facing right, the portrait rendered in the naturalistic Antonine provincial style with softly modelled features. The Greek legend ΑΥ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ ΚΟΜΜΟΔΟϹ is disposed around the field, identifying the prince as Augustus Caesar Commodus. The flan is irregular and the die work characteristic of a Phrygian civic mint of the Antonine period. |
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| Mintage | ND (177-179) |
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The ΟΜΟΝΟΙΑ (Homonoia) type signals a formal alliance or reconciliation between Ococleia and Bruzus, two minor Phrygian communities whose joint coinage was a civic statement rather than an economic necessity. Such inter-city Homonoia issues proliferated under the Antonines, when local elites competed to advertise harmonious relations — and, by extension, their own role in brokering them — before the provincial governor at Apamea.
Ococleia itself is poorly attested outside its coinage, and the Bruzeni remain equally obscure. This joint issue is among the primary evidence that either settlement maintained any civic identity at all during the 170s.