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Æ41 - Caracalla ΛΑΟΔΙΚΕΩΝ ΝΕΩΚΟΡΩΝ, ΤΟ ΠΗ
| Issuer | Laodicea ad Lycum (Conventus of Cibyra) |
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| Year | 216-217 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse lettering | ΙΟΥΛΙΑ ΔΟΜΝΑ ϹΕΒ |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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The designation ΝΕΩΚΟΡΩΝ — "temple-warden" — was an honorific status cities of the Roman east competed for aggressively, as it granted the right to host an imperial cult and the economic traffic that came with it. Laodicea ad Lycum held this title and wore it on its coinage accordingly. The ΤΟ ΠΗ notation records the city's era dating, placing this issue precisely within Caracalla's final year before his assassination on campaign against Parthia in April 217.
At 41mm, these provincial bronzes were struck for local prestige as much as commerce — large flans carrying civic pride in a denomination nobody carried casually.