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Æ40 - Philip I ΕΠΙ Μ ΑΥΡ ΤΙΜΑΙΟΥ Α ΑΡΧ Κ ϹΤΕΦ ΔΟΡΥΛΑΕΩΝ
| Issuer | Dorylaeum (Conventus of Synnada) |
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| Year | 244-249 |
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| Diameter | 40 mm |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | Zeus depicted standing in the left, rendered as a nude, heroically proportioned figure in the classical tradition. The god extends his right hand forward holding a thunderbolt, while his left arm bears drapery falling beside him. A long sceptre or eagle attribute may be present at his side. The encircling Greek legend identifies the local magistrate responsible for the coin's issue, framing the central type within the field of this large provincial bronze. |
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Dorylaeum, a Phrygian city on the road between Nicaea and Synnada, struck civic bronzes under Philip I as part of the broader phenomenon of autonomous Greek-language coinage that flourished under the Severans and continued fitfully into the mid-third century. The magistrate name preserved in the obverse legend — M. Aur. Timaios — reflects the Antonine citizenship grants that had been reshaping municipal elites across Asia Minor for decades before Caracalla's universal grant in 212 AD.
The archon designation and stephanephoros title in the legend indicate Timaios held dual civic offices simultaneously, an administrative arrangement attested in several Phrygian cities but not universal across the conventus.