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Assarion - Augustus ΙΟΥΛΙΟΣ ΚΑΛΛΙΚΛΗΣ ΣΙΒΛΙΑΝΩΝ
| Issuer | Siblia |
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| Year | 5 BC |
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| Weight | 5.53 g |
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| Reverse description | Bust of the lunar deity Mên facing right, wearing a Phrygian cap surmounted by a crescent. The deity appears draped, with the characteristic attributes of the Anatolian god of the moon. The three-part Greek legend ΙΟΥΛΙΟΣ ΚΑΛΛΙΚΛΗΣ ΣΙΒΛΙΑΝΩΝ, naming the local magistrate Iulios Kalliklês and the civic community of Siblia, is distributed around the periphery of the field within a beaded border. |
| Reverse script | Greek |
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Siblia was a small Phrygian settlement whose civic coinage output was sparse enough that the magistrate name ΙΟΥΛΙΟΣ ΚΑΛΛΙΚΛΗΣ — Julius Kalliklês — appears on only a narrow group of issues, all dateable to the early Augustan period. The Julian gentilicum strongly suggests a local family that had received Roman citizenship, likely through diplomatic contact during the provincial reorganization of Asia under Augustus. RPC I 3161 is attested across the SNG von Aulock range with minor die variation but no dramatic rarity within the type.