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                <title>Roman Provincial Coin Type struck under Severus Alexander from Ephesus in Ionia</title>
                                    <editor>Joe Shephard supported by a fine-tuned OpenAI GPT-4o mini model</editor>
                                    <funder>John Fell OUP Research Fund</funder>
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                    <name>Jerome Mairat</name>
                    <resp>director and editor</resp>
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                                <placeName type="ancient" key="Ephesus" ref="https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/599612">Ephesus</placeName>
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                            <origDate datingMethod="#julian" notBefore-custom="222" notAfter-custom="235">Severus Alexander</origDate>
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            <p>Data sourced from Roman Provincial Coinage Online: RPC Online (https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk). A complete list of the epidoc files available can be found at https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/epidoc.</p>
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                <date>2025-02-27 18:32:05</date>
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                <desc>Obverse of the coin illustrating this coin type on RPC online: see <ref target="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coin/254595"/> for more details</desc>
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                <desc>Reverse of the coin illustrating this coin type on RPC online: see <ref target="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coin/254595"/> for more details</desc>
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						<persName type="emperor">
						    <rs type="title" key="Imperator"><expan><abbr>Αὐτ</abbr><ex>οκράτωρ</ex></expan></rs>
						    <name type="title" key="Caesar"><expan><abbr>Κ</abbr><ex>αῖσαρ</ex></expan></name>
						    <name type="praenomen" key="Marcus"><expan><abbr>Μ</abbr><ex>ᾶρκος</ex></expan></name>
						    <name type="nomen" key="Aurelius"><expan><abbr>Αὐρ</abbr><ex>ήλιος</ex></expan></name>
						    <name type="cognomen" key="Alexander">Ἀλέξανδρος</name>
						    <name type="title" key="Augustus"><expan><abbr>Αὔγ</abbr><ex>ουστος</ex></expan></name>
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						<placeName type="city" key="Ephesus">
						  <num rend="grc" value="4">δʹ</num>
						  <rs type="title" key="neocorate">νεωκόρων</rs>
						  <name type="ethnic" key="Ephesians">Ἑφεσίων</name>
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                    <ab n="obverse">Emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius Alexander Augustus</ab>
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                    <ab n="reverse">of the Ephesians, four times neocorate</ab>
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                <div type="commentary" subtype="face" n="obv"><p>laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Severus Alexander, right, seen from rear</p></div>
                <div type="commentary" subtype="face" n="rev"><p>Tyche standing, right, wearing kalathos, holding cult statue of Artemis Ephesia between star and crescent, grasping hand of veiled togate figure (the Emperor?) seated on sella curulis, left, holding small sceptre</p></div>
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                        <ref target="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/54915">https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/54915</ref>
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