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Thyateira (AD 218-235) AE 39
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Time of Elagabalus or Severus Alexander, 218-222 and 222-235 AD. AE39 - Medallion (10.72g, 6h). Cl. Aurelius Dionysius, strategos and eques. IЄPA CVNKΛHTOC, draped bust of youthful Senate right / ЄΠI CTP KΛΩ AVP ΔIONVCIOV IΠΠIKOV/ ΘVATЄIPH/NΩN, the river-god Lykos, nude from the waist down, reclining left, placing right hand on amphora; to left, bull grazing right; tree in background. Superb EF, green patina. Ex Numismatica Genevensis SA IV (12/2006), lot 212.
Cl. Aurelius Dionysius is one of several strategoi of Thyateira to include his title ἱππικός, equivalent of the Latin eques (a member of the Equestrian order).
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