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Diassarion - Nero ΑΝΤΩ ΖΗΝΩΝΟΣ ΖΗΝΩΝ ΥΙΟΣ ΛΑΟΔΙΚΕΩΝ ΖΜΥΡΝΑΙΩΝ ΟΜΗΡΟΣ
| Issuer | Laodicea ad Lycum |
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| Year | 54-68 |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Reverse lettering | ΑΝΤΩ ΖΗΝΩΝΟΣ ΖΗΝΩΝ ΥΙΟΣ ΛΑΟΔΙΚΕΩΝ ΖΜΥΡΝΑΙΩΝ ΟΜΗΡΟΣ |
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| Mintage | ND (54-68) |
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Laodicea ad Lycum struck this issue under the magistracy of Zenon son of Zenon, a local official whose family name appears on several Laodicean bronzes from the Neronian period — a sign of a politically connected dynasty cycling through civic magistracies. The reverse type invoking Homer reflects Laodicea's participation in the competitive inter-city claim to Homer's birthplace, a dispute that Smyrna effectively won in the broader ancient imagination but which Laodicea and others refused to concede quietly.
The dual city legend naming both Laodicea and Smyrna signals a formal civic alliance (homonoia) rather than submission — these joint issues were assertions of parity.