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Æ30 - Marcus Aurelius ΔΟΚΙΜΕΩΝ ΜΑΚΕΔΟΝΩΝ
| Issuer | Mint of Docimeum (Conventus of Synnada) |
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| Year | 163-165 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse lettering | ΔΟΚΙΜΕΩΝ ΜΑΚΕΔΟΝΩΝ |
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Docimeum's civic coinage under Marcus Aurelius coincides with the co-emperorship of Lucius Verus, a constitutional arrangement that gave provincial mints considerable latitude in how they acknowledged imperial authority. The city's Macedonian ethnic claim — embedded in the ethnic ΜΑΚΕΔΟΝΩΝ — reflects a colonization tradition the community fiercely maintained in its titulature centuries after any living connection to Macedonia had dissolved.
Docimeum was above all a quarry town; its white-and-purple pavonazzetto marble supplied imperial building projects across the Roman world, including Hadrian's Pantheon rebuilding program.