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Æ30 - Elagabalus ΕΠΙ ΔΙΟΦΑΝΤ ΑΡΧ ϹΑΛΗΝΩΝ
| Issuer | Sala (Conventus of Sardis) |
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| Year | 218-222 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Reverse description | Tyche, the personification of Fortune and civic prosperity, stands facing with head turned to the left, wearing a kalathos (polos) on her head. She holds a rudder resting on a globe in her right hand, symbolising the guidance of destiny, and a cornucopia overflowing with abundance in her left. The figure is rendered in the typical provincial Greek style of Asia Minor, with the magistrate's legend disposed in the field around the deity. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Sala was a minor Lydian city in the Hermus valley whose civic bronze issues depended entirely on the goodwill of the provincial governor and the initiative of local magistrates — the magistrate name partially preserved in this legend, Diophantus, appears as archon during Elagabalus's reign and is otherwise unattested in the epigraphic record. Civic bronze production at Sala was sparse; the city issued far fewer types than its neighbors in the Sardis conventus, which makes any attributed piece from the series relatively uncommon by volume alone.