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Æ30 - Elagabalus ΕΦΕϹΙΩΝ Δ ΝΕΩΚΟΡΩΝ
| Issuer | Ephesus (Ionia, Roman Provincial Mint) |
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| Year | 218-222 |
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| Weight | 11.08 g |
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| Obverse description | Draped and diademed bust of Annia Faustina facing right, her hair arranged in waves and drawn up at the back in characteristic Severan court fashion. The effigy is rendered in the prevailing provincial style, with visible drapery folds over the shoulder. The circular Greek legend surrounds the portrait, reading ΑΝΝΙΑ ΦΑΥϹΤΕΙΝΑ ϹΕΒ, identifying the empress by name and honorific title Augusta. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Ephesus held the title of neokoros — imperial temple warden — four times by the reign of Elagabalus, a distinction fiercely contested among the great cities of Asia Minor and occasionally adjudicated by the Roman Senate itself. The boast of ΔΝΕΩΚΟΡΩΝ, four temple wardships, was a point of civic pride that Ephesus had accumulated over the preceding century, with each grant tied to permission to establish a new imperial cult. Elagabalus, himself a priest of the Syrian sun deity Elagabal before being elevated to emperor at fourteen, was an unusual figure under whose name such traditionally Roman honorifics were issued.