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Æ34 - Hadrian ϹΤΡ Π ΚΟΡΝΗ ΚΟΡΝΟΥΤΟΥ ϹΑΡΔΙΑΝΩΝ
| Issuer | Sardes (Conventus of Sardis) |
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| Year | 117-138 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | Dionysus, nude, standing left in a relaxed contrapposto pose, holding a cantharus in his extended right hand and a long thyrsus in his left. At his feet to the lower left crouches a panther, the god's sacred animal, looking upward toward him. The figure is rendered with classical proportions typical of provincial bronze coinage of the Hadrianic period, the legend encircling the design in two registers around the periphery. |
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Sardis, once capital of the Lydian kingdom and seat of Croesus, retained ceremonial prestige under Roman rule as the leading city of its conventus — the judicial circuit that bore its name. The magistrate named in this issue, Kornelios Kornoutos, served as strategos, the civic office responsible for overseeing local coin production. These magistrate-signed bronzes were not imperial commissions but local civic issues, produced at Sardian expense to facilitate small-denomination exchange the imperial mint had no interest in supplying.
The reference III#2406A suggests this falls within a thinly documented subseries; specimens surface rarely enough that die links across the type remain poorly mapped.