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Æ29 - Philip I ΙΕΡΑΠΟΛΕΙΤΩΝ Κ ΕΦΕϹΙΩΝ ΝΕΩΚΟΡΩΝ ΟΜΟΝΟΙΑ
| Issuer | City of Hierapolis (Conventus of Cibyra) |
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| Year | 244-249 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Otacilia Severa, diademed, facing right, the hair elaborately coiffed and bound with a diadem. The portrait displays the characteristic late Severan style of provincial Greek bronze coinage. The encircling Greek legend surrounds the effigy in the field, reading ΜΑΡΚ ΩΤΑΚΙΛ ϹΕΒΗΡΑ ϹΕΒ, identifying the empress as Augusta and consort of Philip I. |
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| Mintage | ND (244-249) |
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The homonoia ("concord") coinage issued jointly between Hierapolis in Phrygia and Ephesus reflects a formal diplomatic relationship between the two cities, likely renewed or initiated during Philip I's reign to coincide with his broader consolidation of civic loyalties across the eastern provinces. These alliance issues were not struck out of sentiment — they had real commercial and political weight, advertising shared religious ties and mutual recognition of each city's neokorate status to travelers, merchants, and Roman administrators passing through both communities.
Ephesus held multiple neokorate honors; Hierapolis's claim was harder-won and more jealously guarded.