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Æ42 - Elagabalus ΔΙΟΝΥϹΟΠΟΛΕΙΤΩΝ ΤΟ Ο
| Issuer | Dionysopolis (Phrygia) (Conventus of Apamea) |
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| Year | 221-222 |
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| Weight | 26.99 g |
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| Obverse lettering | ΑΝΝΙΑ ΦΑΥϹΤΕΙΝΑ ΑΥΓ ϹΕΒ |
| Reverse description | Dionysus, clad in a long chiton, seated on a throne and facing left; in his right hand he holds a long thyrsus and in his left a cantharus, which he extends downward toward a panther crouching at his feet to the left, the animal looking back toward the god. The composition reflects the standard iconographic program associating Dionysus with his emblematic attributes in provincial Phrygian coinage. The encircling Greek legend ΔΙΟΝΥϹΟΠΟΛΕΙΤΩΝ ΤΟ Ο identifies the issuing city and records a civic era designation. A beaded border frames the entire reverse field. |
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Dionysopolis in Phrygia was a minor civic mint whose output under Elagabalus represents some of the latest coinage the city is known to have struck. The inscription ΤΟ Ο — indicating a second grant of neokoria or a similar civic honorific iteration — points to active negotiation between the city's elite and an imperial court that was, by 221–222, increasingly erratic. Elagabalus' religious impositions and political instability in Rome did not prevent provincial cities from pressing their claims for titles and privileges; if anything, the scramble intensified as his reign visibly faltered.