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Æ31 - Macrinus ΕΦΕϹΙΩΝ ΠΡΩΤΩΝ ΑϹΙΑϹ
| Issuer | Ephesus (Conventus of Ephesus) |
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| Year | 217-218 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse lettering | ΑΥΤ Κ Μ ΟΠΕΛ ϹΕΥΗ ΜΑΚΡΕΙΝΟϹ ϹΕΒ (Translation: Emperor Caesar Marcus Opellius Severus Macrinus Augustus) |
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| Reverse lettering | ΕΦΕϹΙΩΝ ΠΡΩΤΩΝ ΑϹΙΑϹ (Translation: of the Ephesians, first of Asia) |
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Macrinus never visited Asia Minor during his fourteen-month reign, yet the cities of the conventus scrambled to issue coins in his name — civic loyalty, or more accurately civic self-interest, demanded it. Ephesus held the title ΠΡΩΤΩΝ ΑϹΙΑϹ, "first of Asia," a designation bitterly contested with Smyrna and Pergamon and defended through exactly this kind of high-profile imperial coinage.
The reign ended in June 218 when Elagabalus's forces defeated Macrinus at the Battle of Antioch. Issues struck in his name became liabilities almost immediately.