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Bronze - Æ 18-19 mm - 4,2 grams - Die axis 06:30 - Struck AD 69-79.
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[EΠI] ΦΛ ЄICIΓON[OY] (Epimelethes Fl Eisigonoy - Magistrate Flavius Eisigonos).
Head of Dionysios facing right. Ivy wreathed & Taenia. |
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[ΣAP]ΔIANΩN - (Of the Sardisians).
Zeus Lydios standing,rightwards turned. Right arm outstretched with eagle on it. Under it either letters in ligature or a tripod above which Z. accepts its offer.
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Zeus Lydios: 'Zeus as worshipped by the Lydians' which was a continuation of their old God Men.
T. Flavius Eisigonos, as Strategos, is a known magistrate who (a.o. ?) was in function during the reign of Vespasian.
Provincially minted in Sardis, Lydia
Obv. : Good but Worn, possibly doublestruck - Rev. : Good but Worn.
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