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Æ36 - Philip I ΕΠΙ ΑΥΡ ΜΑΡΚΟΥ ΑΡΧ ΠΡ ΤΟ Β ΚΙΔΥΗϹϹΕΩΝ
| Issuer | Cidyessus (Conventus of Synnada) |
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| Year | 244-249 |
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| Reference(s) | RPC VIII#20703 |
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| Reverse description | Two deities depicted in a confronted composition: Mên (?) standing to the right, holding a patera in the extended hand and a sceptre, faces Zeus seated to the left upon a throne, likewise holding a patera and sceptre. Between the two figures stands a lighted altar, serving as the focal devotional element of the scene. The composition is enclosed by the reverse legend naming the local magistrate and the civic ethnic of the Cidyessians, arranged around the periphery of the flan. |
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| Mintage | ND (244-249) |
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Cidyessus was a minor Phrygian city whose civic coinage under Philip I reflects the intense competition among small Asian municipalities for imperial favor during his reign. The magistrate named in the legend — Aurelius Marcus, holding the office of archon for the second time — is known from only a handful of dies, making issues bearing his tenure among the more precisely attributable in the city's output. Philip's five-year reign generated a concentrated burst of provincial bronze across the conventus of Synnada, much of it issued to fund local festivals and religious obligations rather than trade.