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Diassarion - Trajan Α (Τ) ΓΑ ΠΛΩ ΠΩΛΛΙΩΝΟϹ ϹΤ Β ΑΠΠΙΑΝΩΝ
| Issuer | Appia (Phrygia) |
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| Year | 98-117 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | A deity, most likely Zeus or possibly Nemesis, seated left on a throne, holding a patera or sceptre in the outstretched right hand and a long sceptre in the left. The enthroned figure is rendered in a static, formal provincial style with drapery falling over the legs and throne. The Greek civic legend of the magistrate of Appia surrounds the scene, with the ethnic ΑΠΠΙΑΝΩΝ identifying the issuing city. The entire design is enclosed within a beaded border. |
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Appia was a minor Phrygian city whose civic coinage under Trajan survives in frustratingly small numbers, leaving the magistrate name preserved in this legend — Pollion, strategos for the second time — as one of the few datable anchors for the local administrative sequence. The SNG von Aulock specimens remain the primary reference points for die comparison on this type.