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Æ30 - Septimius Severus ΑϹΙΑ ΚΟΜΟΔ, ΛΑΟΔΙΚΕΩΝ
| Issuer | Laodicea ad Lycum (Conventus of Cibyra) |
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| Year | 193-211 |
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| Diameter | 30 mm |
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| Reverse description | An agonistic table depicted in three-quarter perspective, bearing a large wreath or crown containing two palm branches, flanked by two prize purses on the table surface, beneath which stands a tall agonistic urn or hydria. The composition is a standard civic agonistic type, referencing the Commodian games (ΑϹΙΑ ΚΟΜΟΔ) held at Laodicea and recognised at the provincial Asian level. The reverse legend naming the Laodiceans encircles the design. |
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| Mint | Laodicea ad Lycum |
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Laodicea ad Lycum was among the wealthiest cities in Phrygia, a status it owed partly to its position on the Lycus River trade route and partly to a thriving textile industry — the city's black wool was exported across the empire. Under Septimius Severus, Phrygian civic bronzes proliferated as local elites competed for imperial favor during the instability following the Year of the Five Emperors. The legend ΑϹΙΑ ΚΟΜΟΔ reflects the city's honorific title, a retention of Commodan-era nomenclature into the Severan period — an administrative curiosity that outlasted the emperor who granted it.