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Diassarion - Faustina the Elder ϹΑΡΔΙΑΝΩΝ
| Issuer | Sardis (Conventus of Sardis) |
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| Year | 138-140 |
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| Weight | 5.91 g |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse lettering | ϹΑΡΔΙΑΝΩΝ |
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Faustina the Elder died in 140 or 141 AD, and Antoninus Pius responded by securing her deification — a move that generated an enormous provincial coinage across Asia Minor in her honor. Sardis, as the principal city of its conventus and a site of deep Lydian civic pride, was among the more prolific issuers. This diassarion belongs to that posthumous or near-posthumous burst of activity, struck while the city was simultaneously navigating its relationship with the new Antonine dynasty.
BMC RE #140 places this within a well-documented Sardian sequence, though the conventus issues of this reign remain less systematically studied than the Ephesian material.