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Æ36 - Caracalla ΕΠΙ ϹΤΡ ΤΙΒ ΚΛ ΜΥΡΩΝΟϹ ΤΟ Β, ΚΟΛΟΦΩΝΙΩΝ
| Issuer | Colophon (Conventus of Ephesus) |
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| Year | 198-217 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust of the emperor Caracalla facing right, depicted from the rear in the characteristic three-quarter back view. The portrait displays the emperor's military paludamentum and scale armour, rendered with provincial workmanship typical of the Ionian mint at Colophon. A circular Greek legend frames the effigy around the periphery of the flan. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Colophon's civic bronze issues under Caracalla belong to a municipally funded tradition where local magistrates — here Tiberius Claudius Myron, serving his second term (ΤΟ Β) — bore personal financial responsibility for the striking costs. This practice of named magistrate coinages was standard across the Ionian conventus, but Myron's second tenure is specifically documented, making the term designation more than honorific.
Colophon itself had been in decline since Lysimachus forcibly resettled much of its population to Ephesus around 294 BC. By the Severan period it was a shadow of the city that once claimed Homer.