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Æ35 - Severus Alexander ΕΠ ϹΤ ΑΥΡ ϹΤΡΑΤΟΝΕΙΚΙΑΝΟΥ ΤΗΜΝΕΙΤΩΝ
| Issuer | Temnus (Conventus of Smyrna) |
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| Year | 222-235 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | A young, nude male figure, identified as Cyparissus, strides or runs to the left, his chlamys billowing behind him as he holds it in his outstretched hand. Before him, a stag bounds to the left, recalling the mythological association of Cyparissus with his beloved sacred stag. The composition is lively and occupies the full reverse field, with the Greek epigraphic legend disposed around the periphery. The style is consistent with the civic bronze coinage of Temnus in the Aeolian region during the Severan period. |
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Temnus was a minor Aeolian city whose civic coinage under the Severan dynasty represents one of the few material records of its local magistracy. The magistrate name preserved in this legend — Aurelius Stratonikianus — reflects the spread of Aurelian citizenship grants through Asia Minor following the Constitutio Antoniniana of 212 AD, which explains the ΑΥΡ prefix on a provincial official decades after Caracalla's edict.
Temnus produced no imperial mint coinage; all bronzes from the city are civic issues struck under local authority within the Smyrna conventus jurisdiction.