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Æ37 - Elagabalus ΕΠΙ Γ Μ ΑΥΡ ΥΛΛΟΥ ΕΠΙΚΡΑΤΟΥϹ ΜΑΓΝΗΤΩΝ
| Issuer | Magnesia ad Maeandrum (Conventus of Miletus) |
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| Year | 218-222 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse description | Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Emperor Elagabalus facing right, depicted from the rear in the characteristic three-quarter back view favoured in eastern provincial coinage of the Severan period. The emperor's paludamentum and segmented cuirass are rendered with careful detail. A circular Greek legend surrounds the imperial effigy in the field. |
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| Reverse description | The infant Dionysus is depicted kneeling upon a table or altar, facing front with head turned to the left, while below the table a cista mystica is shown from which a serpent emerges — a prominent Dionysiac cult symbol. Flanking and encircling the divine infant are three Corybantes, each wearing a crested helmet and short military chiton, actively beating their shields with drawn swords in the ritual apotropaic dance associated with the protection of the young god. The reverse legend, arranged around the periphery of the field, records the name and title of the local magistrate responsible for the coinage. |
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Magnesia ad Maeandrum struck civic bronze under the magistrate Aurelius Hyllos Epikrates, whose name dominates the reverse legend — a reminder that local magistrates in Asia Minor used imperial coinage as a vehicle for personal civic prestige. The city had held the title of neokoros under earlier emperors, and its mints remained active through Elagabalus's short, chaotic reign largely through bureaucratic momentum rather than any imperial directive.
Elagabalus was murdered in 222 AD, barely four years into his reign, at age eighteen.