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Tetradrachm - Aphobetos, son of Philip
| Issuer | Laodikeia (Phrygia) |
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| Year | 88 BC - 67 BC |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Reverse description | Two serpents rising symmetrically on either side of a central bow case (gorytos), their bodies coiling upward with heads confronting one another at the top of the device. To the left of the bow case, the city ethnic ΛAO is inscribed in the field, identifying the issuing city of Laodikeia. To the right appears a winged kerykeion (caduceus). Between the heads of the two serpents, the magistrate's name is inscribed in two lines reading ΑΦΟΒΗΤΟΣ above ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟΥ, identifying the issuing magistrate Aphobetos, son of Philip. The reverse follows the standard Cistophoric reverse type established for cities of the Pergamene and broader western Anatolian region. |
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| Mintage | ND (88 BC - 67 BC) |
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Laodikeia ad Lycum issued cistophoric-standard tetradrachms under a series of named magistrates, Aphobetos among them, during a period when the city operated under Roman provincial administration following the reorganization of Asia in 133 BC. The magistrate's name, paired with his father's, follows a naming convention that helps scholars sequence these issues chronologically — though pinning individual magistracies to specific years within the 88–67 BC window remains contested. This bracket coincides with the First Mithridatic War and its aftermath, when Roman control of the Phrygian cities was briefly disrupted and then reasserted under Sulla's settlement.