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Æ38 - Marcus Aurelius ΕΠΙ ϹΤΡΑ ΒΑϹϹΟΥ ΑΚΡΑϹΙΩΤΩΝ
| Issuer | Acrasus (Conventus of Pergamum) |
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| Year | 177-179 |
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| Weight | 32.83 g |
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| Reverse description | Two standing figures flank a central field: at left, the cult statue of Artemis of Ephesus (Artemis Ephesia) facing front, wearing a kalathos and adorned with the characteristic supports and multiple registers of ornament on her lower body; at right, Tyche stands facing left, wearing a kalathos, holding a ship's rudder in her right hand and a cornucopia in her left. Between the two figures, in the upper field, a single star is depicted. The reverse legend, distributed around the composition, identifies the strategos Bassus and the civic ethnikon of Acrasus. |
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| Mintage | ND (177-179) |
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Acrasus was a minor Lydian city of little political weight, which makes its civic bronzes under Marcus Aurelius somewhat counterintuitive in their ambition — this piece, struck during the co-reign of Marcus and Commodus, is among the larger module issues the city ever produced. The magistrate name Bassus recorded in the obverse legend helps anchor the emission to a specific administrative moment, and cross-referencing his tenure against other Acrasian bronzes has allowed scholars to build a rough sequential chronology for the city's otherwise poorly documented mint activity.