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Æ29 - Septimius Severus ΤΩΝ ΕΝ ΚΙΛΒΙΑΝΩΝ ΝΕΙΚΑΕΩΝ
| Issuer | Nicaea Cilbianorum (Conventus of Ephesus) |
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| Year | 193-211 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Julia Domna facing right, her hair elaborately waved and coiled at the nape in the characteristic Severan fashion. The effigy is rendered in the provincial Greek style typical of Lydian civic coinage. The encircling Greek legend reads ΙΟΥΛΙΑ ΔΟΜΝΑ ϹΕΒΑ(ϹΤΗ), identifying the empress as Augusta. The flan is irregular and the surfaces show heavy patination consistent with provincial bronze production. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Nicaea Cilbianorum was a minor inland city of Lydia — not to be confused with the far more prominent Nicaea in Bithynia — whose coins are scarce precisely because the city itself was small and its civic coinage output limited. The ethnic legend distinguishing it as the Nicaea "of the Cilbiani" reflects a long-standing need to differentiate it from its more famous namesake, a bureaucratic habit that predates the Roman reorganization of the Ephesian conventus.
Provincial issues under Septimius Severus from smaller Lydian centers frequently survive in low numbers, and examples from Nicaea Cilbianorum appear in only a handful of major collections.