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Æ36 - Marcus Aurelius ϹΤΡΑΤΗΓ ΤΩΝ ΠΕΡΙ ΖΩϹΙΜΟΝ Δ ΦΙΛΟΠΑΤΟΡΑ ΚΟΛ (Ϲ)ϹΗΝΩΝ
| Issuer | Colossae (Conventus of Cibyra) |
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| Year | 177-180 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Artemis, depicted in dynamic motion, stands erect in a biga drawn by two galloping stags to the right. The goddess reaches back to draw an arrow from the quiver slung at her shoulder, while her other hand holds a bow, conveying her role as divine huntress. The composition, typical of Phrygian civic bronze coinage, fills the reverse field with energetic movement. The encircling Greek legend names the local magistrate and the city of Colossae. |
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| Reverse lettering | ϹΤΡΑΤΗΓ ΤΩΝ ΠΕΡΙ ΖΩϹΙΜΟΝ Δ ΦΙΛΟΠΑΤΟΡΑ ΚΟΛΟ(Ϲ)ϹΗΝΩΝ |
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Colossae had been a declining city for centuries by the time this coin was struck — Strabo had already written it off as a small town by the first century AD, its commercial importance long since eclipsed by neighboring Laodicea and Hierapolis. That a city of such reduced standing was still producing large civic bronzes under Marcus Aurelius speaks to the administrative persistence of the Conventus of Cibyra, which grouped otherwise marginal Phrygian communities under a shared judicial circuit. The strategoi named in the legend — the Zosimos family holding a fourth-term magistracy with the epithet Philopatora — were likely local benefactors funding the issue directly.