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Æ29 - Severus Alexander ΚΙΒΥΡΑΤΩΝ ΑϹ
| Issuer | Cibyra (Conventus of Cibyra) |
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| Year | 225-226 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Reverse description | Nike, the winged goddess of Victory, advancing to the left in dynamic stride, her wings spread behind her. She holds a long palm branch in her extended right hand and proffers a wreath in her left. To the left in the lower field stands a wicker basket (kalathos), a distinctive civic symbol associated with Cibyra. The Greek legend ΚΙΒΥΡΑΤΩΝ ΑϹ is distributed around the field, denoting the issuing city and its neokorate or civic honorific status. |
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| Mint | Cibyra, Phrygia, Turkey |
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Cibyra occupied an awkward position in the Roman provincial system — originally the dominant city of a Lycian-Pisidian tetrapolis, it was broken up by the Roman governor L. Murena around 84 BC and absorbed into the Conventus of Cibyra under the province of Asia. The city retained enough local pride to maintain its own bronze coinage well into the Severan period, though issues under Alexander were modest in ambition and volume compared to neighboring mints.
The regnal year notation visible in the legend places this piece firmly in 225–226, early in Alexander's reign following the assassination of Elagabalus.