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Æ38 - Septimius Severus Π (Υ) ΖΩϹΙΜΟΥ ΤΟΥ ΠΡΟϹΙϹΤΟΥ (sic) ϹΤΡΑΤΟΝΙΚΕΩΝ
| Issuer | Stratonicea (Conventus of Alabanda) |
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| Year | 193-211 |
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| Weight | 26.47 g |
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| Obverse description | Jugate confronted busts of Caracalla and Geta facing one another: Caracalla laureate, draped and cuirassed at left, Geta bare-headed and draped at right. The legend encircles the busts, identifying both co-princes in abbreviated Greek titulature. The composition is characteristic of provincial civic coinage celebrating dynastic concord during the Severan period. |
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| Reverse description | Zeus Panamaros, the principal tutelary deity of Stratonicea, depicted in full military dress, mounted on horseback advancing to the right. The god holds a long sceptre in his left hand while a lighted altar appears to the right of the scene. The reverse legend names the presiding magistrate Zosimos and the ethnic of the issuing city. The iconography of the equestrian Zeus Panamaros is a hallmark of Stratoniceian civic coinage and reflects the importance of his famous sanctuary in the region. |
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Stratonicea, a Carian city granted its name by Antiochus I after he refounded it as a Macedonian colony, maintained the right to strike civic bronze throughout the Severan period — a privilege tied to its status as a major cult center for Zeus Panamaros and Hecate. The magistrate name rendered here as ΠΡΟϹΙϹΤΟΥ is a garbled form of a Greek title, and the sic notation flags what appears to be a die-engraver's error or an orthographic peculiarity of the local mint rather than a modern transcription slip.