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Æ45 - Marcus Aurelius ΕΠΙ ϹΤΑ ΑΤΤΑΛΙΑΝΟΥ ΑΡΧΟΝ ϹΙΛΑΝΔΕΩΝ
| Issuer | Silandus (Conventus of Sardis) |
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| Year | 163-165 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse description | Youthful draped bust of the personified Roman Senate (ΙΕΡΑ ϹΥΝΚΛΗΤΟϹ) facing right, with elaborately rendered curly hair. The bust is depicted in the idealized Hellenic style typical of provincial Lydian coinage of the Antonine period. The circular Greek legend ΙΕΡΑ ϹΥΝΚΛΗΤΟϹ ('Sacred Senate') runs along the periphery of the flan. The portrait reflects the conventional iconography used to anthropomorphize the Senate on eastern provincial issues, with a youthful, unbearded visage. |
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| Mintage | ND (163-165) |
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Silandus was a minor Lydian city whose civic coinage depended entirely on the prestige of the Roman governor's name to carry weight — literally inscribed as the magistrate's guarantee of value. The archon Attalianus named in the legend is otherwise almost entirely obscure, known to scholarship only through the handful of bronzes issued under his tenure. At 52 grams, this piece sits at the heavy end of what Lydian civic mints were producing under the Antonines, suggesting a deliberate assertion of civic ambition from a city that rarely commanded attention from ancient sources.