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Æ32 - Elagabalus ΥΛΛΟΥ ΜΑΓΝΗΤΩΝ
| Issuer | Magnesia ad Maeandrum (Conventus of Miletus) |
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| Year | 218-222 |
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| Reference(s) | RPC VI#5117 |
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| Obverse lettering | ΑΥΤ ΚΑΙ Μ ΑΥΡ ΑΝΤΩΝΕΙΝΟϹ (Translation: Emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus) |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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Magnesia ad Maeandrum occupied an awkward position during Elagabalus's reign — a prosperous Ionian city obliged to honor an emperor whose Syrian solar cult and reported transgressions made him genuinely unpopular in the Hellenized east. Provincial bronzes like this one were struck under local magistrates, and the ethnic ΜΑΓΝΗΤΩΝ asserts civic identity as much as imperial loyalty. The magistrate name partially preserved in ΥΛΛΟΥ likely reflects a local official whose full name and tenure go unrecorded in surviving civic documents.