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Æ32 - Gordian III ΑϹΠΕΝΔΙωΝ
| Issuer | Aspendus (Lycia et Pamphylia) |
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| Year | 241-244 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Empress Tranquillina facing right, her hair elaborately coiffed and bound with a diadem, set within a beaded border. The effigy is rendered in the provincial style characteristic of Pamphylian bronze coinage of the mid-third century AD. A Greek honorific legend encircles the bust in the field, identifying the empress by her full imperial titulature. The portrait conveys regal dignity despite the relatively coarse execution typical of local civic bronzes. |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | The river god Eurymedon, personification of the principal river of Pamphylia, depicted reclining to the left in the conventional Hellenistic tradition for river deities. He holds in his extended right hand an agonistic crown adorned with two palm branches, symbolic of the local games, while his left arm rests upon an overturned water urn from which water flows. A reed stands upright to the right, further identifying the fluvial deity. The civic ethnic legend of Aspendus appears in the field. |
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