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Æ29 - Trajan Decius ΑΝΤΙΟΧΕΩΝ
| Issuer | Antioch ad Maeandrum (Conventus of Alabanda) |
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| Year | 249-251 |
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| Weight | 7.29 g |
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| Obverse description | Diademed and draped bust of Herennia Etruscilla, Augusta and wife of Trajan Decius, facing right, set within a beaded border. The empress is depicted wearing a stephane and elaborate drapery over the shoulder, rendered in the provincial style typical of Carian civic coinage. The Greek imperial legend ΕΡΕΝΙΑ ΑΙΤΡΥϹΚΙΛΛΑ ϹΕΒ (Herennia Etruscilla Sebaste) encircles the effigy, distributed around the field. |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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Antioch ad Maeandrum was a minor Carian city whose coin output under Trajan Decius was modest at best — the conventus structure meant local bronzes were tied to Roman administrative circuits rather than independent civic ambition. Decius's reign lasted barely two years before he died at the Battle of Abritus in 251 AD, the first Roman emperor killed in battle against a foreign enemy.
The tight two-year window constrains the production horizon for all provincial issues under his name.