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Æ32 - Marcus Aurelius ΑΠοΛΛΩΝΙοΥ ΜΕΝΕΚ ϹΤΡΑ Το Β Α ΥΠΑΙΠΗΝΩΝ
| Issuer | Hypaepa, Lydia (Provincial Roman Mint) |
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| Year | 179-180 |
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| Weight | 16.58 g |
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| Reverse description | Tyche standing left, wearing a tall kalathos (polos) on her head, her drapery falling in soft folds; she holds a long rudder in her right hand and a cornucopia in her left. The figure stands on a ground line, rendered in the provincial Greek style typical of Lydian civic coinage. The reverse legend, referencing the local magistrate Apollonios Menek(rates) as strategos for the second time, surrounds the type within a beaded border. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΑΠοΛΛΩΝΙοΥ ΜΕΝΕΚ ϹΤΡΑ Το Β Α ΥΠΑΙΠΗΝΩΝ |
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Hypaepa was a minor Lydian city whose coins are notable less for their artistry than for the administrative detail they preserve. The magistrate name encoded in this legend — a strategos serving his second term — reflects the Roman provincial system's reliance on local Greek elites to manage civic coinage, a delegation of authority that kept mints like Hypaepa operating through the Antonine period largely on municipal initiative rather than imperial directive.
Marcus Aurelius died in March 180 AD at Vindobona while conducting the Marcomannic Wars, making issues attributable to his final year among the last civic bronzes struck in his name before the abrupt transition to Commodus.