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Æ39 - Commodus ΕΠΙ ΕΡ ΜΗΔΟΦΙΛΟΥ ΑΡΧ οΤΡοΗΝΩΝ
| Issuer | Otrus |
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| Year | 177-179 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | Tyche standing left on a low podium, clad in a long chiton and himation, wearing a kalathos (modius) upon her head. She extends her right hand downward holding a ship's rudder resting on the ground, and cradles a cornucopia in her left arm, symbolising prosperity and the fortune of the city. The Greek civic legend is disposed around the field, naming the presiding magistrate Medophilos and the ethnic of the Otroenians, enclosed within a beaded border. The coin exhibits the characteristic fabric and style of Phrygian provincial bronze coinage of the Antonine period. |
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Otrus was a minor Phrygian city whose civic coinage under the Antonines is poorly documented and survives in genuinely small numbers. This issue dates to the joint reign of Marcus Aurelius and Commodus, before Commodus became sole emperor in 180 — the magistrate name Μηδόφιλος appears across a handful of RPC IV.2 types from Otrus, suggesting a concentrated burst of civic minting under a single administration rather than sustained output.
The SNG von Aulock specimen remains one of the few reference anchors for this type.