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Æ37 - Marcus Aurelius ΕΠΙ ΓΡΑ ΕΥΑΡΕϹΤΟΥ ΤΡΑΛΛΙΑΝΩΝ
| Issuer | Tralles (Conventus of Ephesus) |
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| Year | 161-165 |
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| Weight | 24.95 g |
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| Reverse description | Nude Heracles seated to left upon a rock draped with the Nemean lion skin, holding a patera in his extended right hand as if in the act of libation, while his left hand rests upon his club set on the ground beside him. The composition conveys the hero in a moment of repose, a common reverse type for Lydian civic bronze coinage of the Antonine period. The reverse legend naming the city and the presiding grammateus Euarestos is distributed around the central type. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΕΠΙ ΓΡΑ ΕΥΑΡΕϹΤΟΥ ΤΡΑΛΛΙΑΝΩΝ |
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Tralles, a prosperous city in the Maeander valley, held the right to strike civic bronze under Roman oversight — the magistrate name preserved in this legend, Euarestos, appears in a small cluster of issues datable to the early co-reign of Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus. The grammateus, or city secretary, functioned as the responsible official whose name guaranteed the issue, a civic accountability mechanism with no direct Roman equivalent.
The Conventus of Ephesus grouped Tralles among the most commercially active assize districts in Asia Minor, and the city's mint output during this period reflects genuine local prosperity rather than emergency production.