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Æ39 - Trajan Decius ΕΠ ΑΥΡ ΑΠΦΙΑΝΟΥ Β ΑΡΧ Α ΤΟ Β Κ ϹΤΕΦΑΝΗΦ, ΜΑΙΟΝΩΝ
| Issuer | Maeonia (Conventus of Sardis) |
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| Year | 249-251 |
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| Reference(s) | RPC IX#725 |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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Maeonia was a small inland city in Lydia whose civic coinage under Trajan Decius reflects an unusually precise local magistracy — the legend records Aurelios Apphianos serving in his second term as archon and simultaneously holding the stephanephorate, a crown-bearing priesthood that doubled as a civic dating mechanism. The combination of both offices in a single legend is administratively specific and helps scholars sequence Maeonion issues within the reign more precisely than regnal year alone permits.