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Æ37 - Antoninus Pius Π ΚΛ ΑΤΤΑΛΟϹ ΑΝΕΘΗΚΕ ΛΑΟΔΙΚΕΩΝ
| Issuer | Laodicea ad Lycum (Conventus of Cibyra) |
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| Year | 139-144 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Youthful bare-headed bust of Marcus Aurelius as Caesar, draped in cuirass and paludamentum, facing right, viewed from the centre. The portrait displays the characteristic youthful features of Aurelius prior to his elevation to co-emperor, with close-cropped hair rendered in fine relief typical of Antonine provincial coinage. The Greek legend encircles the bust in the field, identifying the subject as Caesar. The flan is broad and slightly irregular, consistent with provincial bronze coinage of the Phrygian conventus. |
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| Reverse description | Full-length standing figure of Zeus Laodiceus facing left, depicted in the traditional Phrygian cult type, holding a small eagle in his extended right hand and a long vertical sceptre in his left. The god stands on a low base or ground line, rendered in a static, frontal-facing posture characteristic of civic deity types on Phrygian provincial bronzes. The circular Greek legend surrounding the field records the dedication by the magistrate Publius Claudius Attalos and the ethnikon of the Laodiceans. The overall workmanship reflects the provincial die-cutting style of the Cibyran conventus under Antoninus Pius. |
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The dedicatory inscription naming Publius Klaudios Attalos marks this as a civic issue funded — or at least formally sponsored — by a local magistrate or benefactor, a practice deeply embedded in the euergetism of Anatolian civic life under the Antonines. Laodicea ad Lycum sat at a major road junction in the Lycus Valley, and its coins circulated within a dense network of competing cities, each using bronze issues partly as instruments of local prestige.
The Conventus of Cibyra was one of four judicial districts into which Rome divided the province of Asia, and Laodicea's assignment to it rather than the Conventus of Apamea reflects administrative boundaries fixed generations earlier under the Republic.