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Æ34 - Antoninus Pius ΔΗΜΟϹ ΚΛΑΥΔΙοΥ ΚοΥΑΡΤΕΙΝοΥ ΑΙΖΑΝΕΙΤΩΝ
| Issuer | Aezani (Conventus of Sardis) |
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| Year | 139-146 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse description | Youthful, lightly bearded bust of Marcus Aurelius (as Caesar under Antoninus Pius) facing right, bare-headed, draped in cuirass and paludamentum, seen from the centre. The portrait captures the prince's early features with fine die engraving characteristic of Phrygian civic coinage of the mid-second century AD. The obverse legend encircling the bust identifies the subject in Greek characters. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Aezani sat in the highlands of Phrygia, administratively grouped under the Conventus of Sardis despite its geographical remove from that city. The city's civic coinage under Antoninus Pius frequently honored the Demos — the personified citizen body — as a way of projecting local institutional pride within the framework of Roman provincial rule. The magistrate name preserved in the legend, Claudius Quartinus, anchors this piece to a specific civic administrator whose tenure can occasionally be cross-referenced against parallel issues bearing the same name across denominations.