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Æ30 - Elagabalus ΑΦΡΟΔΕΙϹΙΕΩΝ
| Issuer | Aphrodisias (Conventus of Alabanda) |
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| Year | 218-222 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Tyche, the personification of the city's fortune, stands facing with head turned to the left, wearing a kalathos (turreted crown) upon her head. She holds a cornucopia in her left arm, symbolizing abundance, and a rudder in her right hand, representing guidance and destiny. The ethnic legend ΑΦΡΟΔΕΙϹΙΕΩΝ appears in the field, identifying the issuing city of Aphrodisias. The design is enclosed within a beaded border, consistent with provincial bronze coinage of the Severan era. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΑΦΡΟΔΕΙϹΙΕΩΝ |
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Aphrodisias owed its civic identity so thoroughly to its patron goddess that the city resisted name changes long after other Carian communities had accepted Roman rebranding. That stubbornness paid off — it remained one of the few cities in Asia Minor permitted to maintain a functioning sanctuary with active cult status well into the Christian imperial period. Elagabalus, whose own religious program centered on a Syrian solar deity, showed unusual tolerance toward established local cults, which may partly explain why civic bronze production at Aphrodisias continued without interruption through his turbulent four-year reign.