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Æ37 - Antoninus Pius Μ ΟΥΛ ΚΑΡΜΙΝΙΟϹ ΚΛΑΥΔΙΑΝΟϹ ΥΙΟϹ ΠΟΛΕΩϹ ΑΤΤΟΥΔΕΩΝ ΑΝΕΘΗΚΕ
| Issuer | Attuda (Conventus of Alabanda) |
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| Year | 138-161 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse description | Laureate, draped bust of Antoninus Pius facing left, rendered in high relief with characteristic Antonine portraiture. The emperor's effigy displays a finely detailed laurel wreath and lightly draped paludamentum visible at the truncation. A Greek imperial legend encircles the portrait along the outer border, reading ΤΙΤΟϹ ΑΙΛΙΟϹ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ ΑΝΤΩΝΕΙΝΟϹ. The die work exhibits the assured, naturalistic style typical of Carian provincial bronzes struck under Roman oversight during the mid-second century AD. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Attuda was a minor Phrygian city whose civic coinage depended almost entirely on the munificence of local magistrates and benefactors rather than any systematic municipal treasury. The dedicatory inscription naming Oulius Karminios Klaudianos as son of the city — a honorific indicating prominent civic patronage — places this issue within a well-documented provincial practice whereby wealthy families funded bronze coinage as public euergetism. The family name Karminios appears in other Lydian and Phrygian epigraphic records, suggesting a regional dynasty of Roman-citizen notables operating across the conventus.