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Æ35 - Trajan Decius ΕΦΕϹΙΩΝ ΠΡΩΤΩΝ ΑϹΙΑϹ
| Issuer | Mint of Ephesus |
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| Year | 249-251 |
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| Weight | 17.68 g |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND (249-251) |
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Ephesus held the title *prōtē tēs Asias* — first of Asia — with considerable civic jealousy, and the insistence on advertising this primacy on coinage was a deliberate assertion against rival Smyrna and Pergamon, both of whom contested the honorific. The phrase ΠΡΩΤΩΝ ΑϹΙΑϹ was not merely decorative; it reflected real diplomatic competition for Roman imperial favor, adjudicated by the provincial koinon and occasionally by the emperor himself.
Trajan Decius reigned less than three years before dying at the Battle of Abritus in 251 — the first Roman emperor killed in war against a foreign enemy. Issues from his reign carry that brevity in their relative scarcity.