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Æ29 - Trajan Decius ΕΠΙ Μ ΑΥΡ ΠΑΥΛΟΥ ΑΙΓΑΕΩΝ
| Issuer | Aegae (Conventus of Smyrna) |
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| Year | 249-251 |
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| Diameter | 29 mm |
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| Obverse description | Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Emperor Trajan Decius facing right, depicted in three-quarter frontal view, with paludamentum visible over the left shoulder. The effigy displays the characteristic portraiture of Decius with a strongly modelled face. The Greek imperial titulature legend encircles the bust along the periphery of the flan, rendered in lunate sigma script typical of provincial issues of the mid-third century AD. |
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| Reverse description | Frontal view of a hexastyle temple with a triangular pediment surmounting six fluted columns set on a stepped podium, the whole rendered in careful perspective typical of Aegaean civic coinage. Within the intercolumniation stands Apollo facing, his figure shown frontally and holding a lyre, identifying the sanctuary as the celebrated temple of Apollo at Aegae. The magistrate's name and civic ethnic appear in the surrounding field and exergue, reflecting the role of the local strategos Marcus Aurelius Paulus as issuing authority. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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