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Æ30 - Domitian ΔΙΑ ΚΟΡ ΔΙΟϹΚΟΥΡΙΔΟΥ ΛΑΟΔΙΚΕΩΝ, ΕΠΙΝΕΙΚΙΟϹ (on temple)
| Issuer | Laodicea ad Lycum (Conventus of Cibyra) |
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| Year | 81-96 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse description | Confronted busts of Domitian and Domitia: laureate and cuirassed bust of Domitian to right, facing draped bust of Domitia to left. The two imperial effigies are presented vis-à-vis in a dynastic composition characteristic of provincial coinage of the Flavian period. The surrounding field carries a continuous Greek legend naming both emperor and empress with their full titulature. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΔΙΑ ΚΟΡ ΔΙΟϹΚΟΥΡΙΔΟΥ ΛΑΟΔΙΚΕΩΝ, ΕΠΙΝΕΙΚΙΟϹ (on temple) (Translation: through Cornelius Dioskourides, of the Laodiceans, victorious) |
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Laodicea ad Lycum was destroyed by earthquake in 60 AD and famously refused imperial aid for reconstruction, funding the rebuilding entirely from its own civic treasury — a pointed display of wealth that the city's elite continued to advertise through prestigious bronze issues well into Domitian's reign. The magistrate name preserved in this legend, Dioskourides, places him among the civic officials who managed this coinage under the conventus system, Cibyra being the administrative center through which Roman judicial authority filtered into the region.
The ΕΠΙΝΕΙΚΙΟϹ epithet on the temple inscription refers to a victorious or triumphal cult title, likely tied to Domitian's Germanic campaigns of the 80s AD.