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Æ36 - Marcus Aurelius ΜΑΓΝΗΤΩΝ
| Issuer | Magnesia ad Maeandrum (Conventus of Miletus) |
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| Year | 161-169 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Laureate, cuirassed bust of Lucius Verus, draped with paludamentum, facing right and seen from the rear, with the figure rendered in the three-quarter rear-view convention characteristic of provincial bronze coinage of the Antonine period. The obverse legend encircles the bust in Greek characters, identifying the emperor by his imperial titulature. |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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Magnesia ad Maeandrum held a privileged position among the cities of the Maeander valley, claiming descent from Thessalian colonists and maintaining an active civic coinage through the imperial period as a demonstration of municipal autonomy. Issues bearing Marcus Aurelius appear to concentrate in the earlier part of his reign, before co-emperor Lucius Verus's Parthian campaign drew eastern administrative attention away from routine civic affairs. The city's coins from this period were struck under the authority of local magistrates whose names occasionally appear in the legends — a detail worth cross-referencing against the RPC online corpus for die-link attribution.