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Æ31 - Elagabalus ΒΟΥΛΗ ΔΗΜΟϹ ΤΙΑΝΩΝ
| Issuer | Tium (Bithynia and Pontus) |
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| Year | 218-222 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Julia Maesa facing right, her hair elaborately waved and drawn back in ridged layers, wearing a diadem; she holds a poppy flower in her right hand. The Greek legend encircles the bust within a dotted border. The portrait is rendered in the typical provincial style of Bithynian civic coinage, with fine drapery visible at the shoulder. |
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| Obverse lettering | ΙΟΥΛ ΜΑΙϹΑΝ ϹΕΒ (Translation: for Julia Maesa Augusta) |
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Tium was a minor coastal polis on the Black Sea shore of Bithynia, overshadowed throughout antiquity by Heraclea Pontica to its east. That it continued issuing civic bronze under Elagabalus — one of the more chaotic reigns of the third century — reflects the persistent autonomy of provincial minting even as the imperial court lurched from scandal to scandal in Rome. The coin invokes both the Boule and Demos as issuing authority, a formulaic civic assertion that nonetheless carried real administrative weight in a city this size.