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Æ35 - Maximinus Μ ΑΥΡ ΔΙΟΝΥϹΙΟϹ Β ΤΟΥ ΙΚΕϹΙΟΥ ΑΝΕΘΗΚΑ ΑΥΡ ΝΕΑΠΟΛΕΙΤΩΝ
| Issuer | Neapolis ad Harpasum (Conventus of Alabanda) |
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| Year | 235-238 |
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| Reference(s) | RPC VI#5337 |
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| Reverse description | Two deities standing facing one another: at left, a figure identified tentatively as Zeus standing facing with head turned right, clad in himation, holding a long sceptre in one hand and a small cult statuette in the other; at right, a veiled female figure identified tentatively as Hera standing left, wearing chiton and veil, holding a patera in one hand and a long sceptre in the other. The composition reflects a local civic cult pairing typical of Asia Minor provincial bronze coinage. A dedicatory inscription in Greek fills the field and border. |
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| Mint | Neapolis ad Harpasum |
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Maximinus Thrax never visited the eastern provinces. His three-year reign was consumed almost entirely by military campaigns on the Rhine and Danube, making the civic coinage issued in his name across Asia Minor — including this piece from Neapolis ad Harpasum — the primary visual record of his imperial recognition in the Greek-speaking world. The subscription naming Aurelius Dionysios, son of Ikesios, as the dedicating magistrate places this coin within a well-documented civic practice of local officials funding bronze issues as acts of public munificence at their own expense.
Neapolis ad Harpasum was a minor city of the Maeander valley, subordinate to the conventus at Alabanda. Its bronze output under Maximinus is sparse.