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| Issuer | Apamea (Phrygia) (Conventus of Apamea) |
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| Year | 251-253 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse description | Youthful draped bust of the personified Roman Senate facing right, with curly hair rendered in fine wavy locks. The effigy is presented in a semi-idealized classical style befitting the allegorical subject. The circular legend ΙΕΡΑ ϹΥΝΚΛΗΤΟϹ runs around the periphery, enclosed within a dotted border. |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | Tyche, the city goddess of Apamea, standing left in long draped garments and wearing a turreted crown, holding a ship's rudder in her right hand and a cornucopia in her left arm, symbolizing the city's prosperity and fortune. The encircling Greek legend naming the presiding magistrate Claudius Apollinarios and the civic ethnic of the Apameans runs around the entire field, contained within a dotted border. |
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