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Æ30 - Elagabalus ΜΙΛΗΤΟΠΟΛΙΤΩΝ
| Issuer | Miletopolis (Conventus of Cyzicus) |
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| Year | 218-222 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | Artemis, the divine huntress, advancing left in dynamic stride, her right hand raised to draw an arrow from the quiver slung at her shoulder while her left hand holds the bow. At her feet, a hound runs to the left, reinforcing the hunting iconography associated with the goddess. The reverse legend ΜΙΛΗΤΟΠΟΛΙΤΩΝ, identifying the issuing civic authority of Miletopolis, is disposed around the field in the customary arrangement for provincial bronze coinage of the Mysian conventus. |
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Miletopolis was a minor Mysian city whose civic coinage under Elagabalus falls within the broader Cyzicus conventus — the administrative district through which Roman judicial and monetary oversight was exercised in that part of Bithynia. The city struck relatively few types under this emperor, making provincial issues from his reign here genuinely scarce compared to the output of larger Mysian centers like Pergamon or Cyzicus itself.
Elagabalus ruled for just under four years before his murder by the Praetorian Guard in 222 AD, which hard-brackets the entire civic output attributed to him.