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Æ35 - Antoninus Pius Π ΚΛ ΑΤΤΑΛΟϹ ΑΝΕΘΗΚΕΝ (ΛΑΟΔΙΚΕΩΝ)
| Issuer | Laodicea ad Lycum (Conventus of Cibyra) |
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| Year | 139-144 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The inscription ΠΩΛ ΚΛ ΑΤΤΑΛΟΣ ΑΝΕΘΗΚΕΝ identifies this as a civic dedication issue — the coin was personally financed and offered by a local magistrate, Pollius Claudius Attalos, whose assumption of a Roman gentilicium alongside a Greek cognomen is exactly the kind of hybrid identity that characterized Lydian and Phrygian civic elites under the Antonines. Laodicea ad Lycum, sitting astride the Lycus valley road connecting Ephesus to the interior, had the commercial wealth to support exactly this sort of euergetistic display.
The Conventus of Cibyra was one of the four assize districts of Asia, and Laodicea competed aggressively with Hierapolis and Colossae for regional prestige during precisely this decade.