LYDIA. Magnesia ad Sipylum. Augustus, with Livia, Caius, and Lucius, 27 BC-AD 14. Hemiassarion (Bronze, 21 mm, 4.99 g, 12 h), Dionysios Kilas, son of Dionysios and priest of the cult of Augustus, 2 BC (?). [ΜΑΓΝΗΤΕΣ ΑΠΟ] ΣΙΠYΛΟV ΣΕΒΑΣΤΟΙ Jugate heads of Augustus, laureate, and Livia, draped, to right. Rev. ΔΙΟΝYΣΙΟΣ ΔΙΟΝYΣΙΟY ΚΙΛΑΣ - ΙΕΡΕYΣ / ΣΕΒΑΣΤΟY Confronted heads of Gaius and Lucius. BMC 44. RPC I 2449. Rare. Light deposits and the obverse struck somewhat off center, otherwise, good fine.


This coin forms part of a dynastic issue that Dionysios Kilas, the Magnesian priest of the cult of Augustus, probably financed when the Caesars Caius and Lucius visited his polis in 2 BC