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Æ30 - Trajan Decius ϹΑΜΙΩΝ

Issuer Samos (Conventus of Miletus)
Year 249-251
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Composition Bronze
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Obverse lettering ΑΥΤ Κ ΤΡΑΙΑΝΟϹ ΔΕΚΙΟϹ
(Translation: Emperor Caesar Trajan Decius)
Reverse description Androklos, the mythological founder of Ephesus and hero venerated across Ionia, depicted standing right in dynamic striding pose, wearing a chlamys and thrusting a spear downward toward a wild boar at lower right. The scene alludes to the legendary founding myth in which Androklos slew a boar on the site of Ephesus, here adapted as a civic emblem for Samian coinage. A ground line is visible beneath the figures, and the reverse field is enclosed within a beaded border. The ethnic legend ϹΑΜΙΩΝ arcs across the upper field.
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Mint Samos
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