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Æ44 - Caracalla ΕΠΙ Λ ΑΙΛ ΠΙΓΡΗΤΟϹ ΑϹΙΑΡΧΟΥ Γ, ΛΑΟΔΙΚΕΩΝ ΝΕΩΚΟΡΩΝ
| Issuer | Laodicea ad Lycum (Conventus of Cibyra) |
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| Year | 198-217 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Laureate and draped bust of the Demos of Laodicea facing right, the drapery visible on the left shoulder, rendered in the civic personification tradition of Asia Minor. The effigy displays a wreathed head with laurel crown, characteristic of the Demos type as employed on neocorate coinage. A circular Greek legend surrounds the bust in the field, reading from the upper left and continuing around the coin's periphery. |
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| Mintage | ND (198-217) |
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Laodicea ad Lycum held the title of neokoros — official keeper of an imperial cult temple — and this issue advertises that status directly, a distinction the city pursued aggressively during the Severan period as civic competition for imperial favor among Anatolian cities intensified. The magistrate named in the legend, L. Aelius Pigrês, held the asiarchate, the most prestigious religious office in the province of Asia, and his third tenure in that role is specified — an unusual precision that suggests deliberate commemoration of his service rather than routine administrative notation.