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Æ32 - Trajan ΟΥ ΑΝΟΥ ΦΙΛΑΔΕΛΦΕΩΝ
| Issuer | Philadelphia (Conventus of Sardis) |
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| Year | 98-117 |
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| Diameter | 32 mm |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | A draped goddess or divine figure seated to the left upon a throne or chair, extending her right arm forward and holding in her outstretched hand a small statuette or cult image of uncertain identity. The figure is rendered in flowing drapery typical of provincial Greek coinage of the Trajanic period. A Greek civic legend referencing the magistrate and the Philadelphians encircles the reverse field. |
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Philadelphia in Lydia — modern Alaşehir in western Turkey — was one of the last cities in Asia Minor to fall to the Ottomans, holding out until 1390, but its Roman-era civic coinage reflects an earlier moment of particular loyalty to Rome. The city's honorific epithet, encoded in its coinage throughout the imperial period, traces back to Attalid dynastic naming conventions long predating Roman administration. Under Trajan, whose eastern campaigns and Dacian wars drew heavily on provincial resources, civic bronzes like this one circulated locally without imperial authorization — struck on the city's own account within the Sardis conventus jurisdiction.