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| Issuer | Colossae (Conventus of Cibyra) |
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| Year | 180 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Apollonios, son of Zosimos and grandson of Diokrates, funded this issue as a civic benefaction — the dedicatory inscription naming all three generations reflects a Phrygian elite custom of anchoring public generosity to family lineage, transforming a coin issue into a genealogical monument. Colossae, by the time of Marcus Aurelius, was a city in slow decline relative to its neighbor Laodicea, yet local magistrates continued commissioning bronze issues to assert civic identity within the Cibyran conventus.