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<p>[QUOTE="Sulla80, post: 4303897, member: 99456"]Nice coin - I have one of the same or close:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1095030[/ATTACH]</p><p>Lydia, Sardes, Circa 133 BC-AD 14, AE15</p><p><b>Obv:</b> Laureate head of Apollo to right</p><p><b>Rev:</b> ΣAPΔIANΩN Club; all within laurel wreath; to right, monogram</p><p><br /></p><p>Hi Doug, I appreciate the exchange. My personal experience would support a view that it is human nature to go about day to day life not too concerned about distant overlords or even having disdain for their insensitivity to my reality, the challenge would be to see some evidence that coins expressed or supported this. I found the arguments in Ann Johnston's paper compelling at a broad level i.e. without specific evidence, a more neutral assumption is appropriate. There are some interesting notes on dating in the article as well e.g. "The Senates evolve from Theos to Hiera Synkletos, the changeover taking place roughly in the period from Domitian to Trajan".</p><p><br /></p><p>A few other notes that I found interesting (paraphrased a bit for brevity)</p><ul> <li>The Senate type is found exclusively (with one exception noted) in the Province of Asia, a province administered by the Senate in the imperial period from 133 B.C. when the Pergamene kingdom was willed to Rome</li> <li>The autonomous issues were not apparently treated at all differently in circulation, they have been found outside their own cities and were counter-marked elsewhere</li> <li>The geographical distribution of the "pseudo-autonomous" issues is roughly that of all Greek Imperials</li> <li>For any category of coins with imperial portrait one can find other examples without</li> <li>Smyrna is called out as unusual for striking exclusively autonomous issues and certain unchanging autonomous types over a period of 100 to 150 years (and potential value in pseudo-autonomous dies being reusable even with changing emperors)</li> </ul><p>I also look at the coins in the OP and it seems to me that the Senate on my coin even looks like Nero - I wondered if there was any pattern here but haven't investigated. I'd like to know more about the "cult of the Senate" and how that might show up in other, non-coin, evidence. No shortage of further opportunities for exploration.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Sulla80, post: 4303897, member: 99456"]Nice coin - I have one of the same or close: [ATTACH=full]1095030[/ATTACH] Lydia, Sardes, Circa 133 BC-AD 14, AE15 [B]Obv:[/B] Laureate head of Apollo to right [B]Rev:[/B] ΣAPΔIANΩN Club; all within laurel wreath; to right, monogram Hi Doug, I appreciate the exchange. My personal experience would support a view that it is human nature to go about day to day life not too concerned about distant overlords or even having disdain for their insensitivity to my reality, the challenge would be to see some evidence that coins expressed or supported this. I found the arguments in Ann Johnston's paper compelling at a broad level i.e. without specific evidence, a more neutral assumption is appropriate. There are some interesting notes on dating in the article as well e.g. "The Senates evolve from Theos to Hiera Synkletos, the changeover taking place roughly in the period from Domitian to Trajan". A few other notes that I found interesting (paraphrased a bit for brevity) [LIST] [*]The Senate type is found exclusively (with one exception noted) in the Province of Asia, a province administered by the Senate in the imperial period from 133 B.C. when the Pergamene kingdom was willed to Rome [*]The autonomous issues were not apparently treated at all differently in circulation, they have been found outside their own cities and were counter-marked elsewhere [*]The geographical distribution of the "pseudo-autonomous" issues is roughly that of all Greek Imperials [*]For any category of coins with imperial portrait one can find other examples without [*]Smyrna is called out as unusual for striking exclusively autonomous issues and certain unchanging autonomous types over a period of 100 to 150 years (and potential value in pseudo-autonomous dies being reusable even with changing emperors) [/LIST] I also look at the coins in the OP and it seems to me that the Senate on my coin even looks like Nero - I wondered if there was any pattern here but haven't investigated. I'd like to know more about the "cult of the Senate" and how that might show up in other, non-coin, evidence. No shortage of further opportunities for exploration.[/QUOTE]
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