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Æ31 - Antoninus Pius ΕΠΙ ΤΡΑΛΛΙΑΝΩΝ (?)
| Issuer | Tralles (Conventus of Ephesus) |
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| Year | 139-144 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | Sarapis enthroned, seated left, wearing the kalathos (modius) upon his head, his right arm extended forward over Cerberus, the three-headed hound of the underworld, who crouches at his feet. The deity holds a long sceptre in his left hand. The composition reflects the syncretic Graeco-Egyptian religious iconography commonly employed in Lydian provincial coinage of the Antonine period. The Greek civic legend of Tralles appears in the field, partially legible. |
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Tralles, a prosperous city in the Maeander valley, held the right to strike bronze coinage under Roman oversight through the conventus system, whereby regional assizes — judicial circuits administered from Ephesus — conferred civic privileges including the minting of local issues. The magistrate name partially preserved in the legend has not been firmly resolved against known epigraphic records, leaving the attribution tentative.