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Æ32 - Marcus Aurelius Ε ϹΤΡΑ ΕΥΔΙΟΥ Β ΘΥΑΤΕΙΡΗΝΩΝ
| Issuer | Thyatira (Conventus of Pergamum) |
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| Year | 178-179 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | Full-length figure of Zeus Lydios standing facing left, his body clad in long robes, holding an eagle in his outstretched right hand and a tall sceptre in his left. The deity is rendered in a static, hieratic pose typical of Lydian civic coinage. The circular Greek legend surrounding the field names the strategos Eudios and identifies the issuing city of Thyateira. The type reflects the important local cult of Zeus Lydios venerated in the Lydian conventus. |
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Thyatira, a Lydian city better known today as Akhisar in western Turkey, was a productive mint for provincial bronze throughout the Antonine period. This issue dates to the co-regency of Marcus Aurelius and Commodus, following Commodus's elevation to Augustus in 177 AD — a political arrangement that made both men nominally equal rulers, though real power never genuinely shifted. The magistrate name Eudios, rendered here in the genitive, identifies a local strategos whose second term of office the legend specifies, a detail that occasionally helps scholars sequence issues within a single reign.