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Æ30 - Marcus Aurelius ϹΤΡ ΚΛ ΒΑΛΕΡΙΑΝΟΥ? ΒΛΑΥΔΕΩ (sic) ΜΑΚΕΔ (Δs with long serifs)
| Issuer | Blaundus (Conventus of Sardis) |
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| Year | 166-169 |
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| Weight | 16.59 g |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | Apollo standing facing right, his head adorned with a radiate crown, holding a plectrum in his extended right hand and a lyre in his left. The figure is rendered in a static, hieratic pose typical of Lydian provincial bronzes, with drapery falling in schematic folds. The surrounding Greek legend, partially garbled or idiosyncratic on the die, names the local magistrate and the civic ethnic of Blaundus with the Macedonian tribal designation. The field is worn and somewhat granular, consistent with the coin's heavily circulated condition. |
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Blaundus was a minor Lydian city whose civic bronze output under the Antonines is poorly documented and survives in small numbers. The magistrate name partially preserved here — ΚΛ ΒΑΛΕΡΙΑΝΟΥ — suggests a local official of the Claudian gens, a family name that spread widely through the Greek East following Claudius's extension of citizenship in the first century. The "(sic)" notation on ΒΛΑΥΔΕΩ flags a non-standard spelling of the ethnic, a variation seen on a handful of Blaundus issues and likely attributable to an engraver working from dictation or an imprecise model die.