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Æ32 - Elagabalus ΕΠΙ ΓΡ ΑΥΡ ΑΜΜΙΑΝΟΥ ΝΥϹΑΕΩΝ
| Issuer | Nysa (Conventus of Ephesus) |
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| Year | 218-222 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed, draped and cuirassed bust of Severus Alexander as Caesar facing right, presented from a rear three-quarter perspective. The youthful portrait is rendered in the provincial style characteristic of Lydian civic coinage of the early third century AD. The obverse legend encircles the bust field, identifying the subject by his full imperial titulature. |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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Nysa ad Maeandrum was among the more culturally ambitious cities of the Lydian interior — home to a celebrated school of rhetoric and the geographer Strabo, who studied there in the first century BC. Under Elagabalus, local bronze coinage of this kind was issued under the authority of a civic magistrate, here identified by the inscription as Aurelius Ammianus, whose grammateus title placed him as secretary responsible for authorizing the issue. The city struck prolifically under the Severan emperors, making magistrate-specific attribution the primary tool for sequencing these bronzes.