Person

(Tiberius Iulius) Candidus Celsus

Possibly the Roman proconsul in Asia between c. AD 139 and 147.

His name - lacking any titles - appears on coins from the Antonine period in Harpasus/Caria, which show the heads of Demos resp. a juvenile Marcus Aurelius (RPC IV Temp. nos. 897-898, c. AD 139-147).

Lit.: PIR² I 242; G. R. Stumpf, Numismatische Studien zur Chronologie der römischen Statthalter in Kleinasien (1991) pp. 296-297; W. Leschhorn, Lexikon der Aufschriften auf griechischen Münzen II (2009) p. 591 (AD 139-161); Th. Corsten, Lexicon of Greek Personal Names V B. Coastal Asia Minor: Caria to Cilicia (2013) s. v. Kandidos (no. 2) (AD 139-161).

http://www.lgpn.ox.ac.uk/id/V5b-8430

https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/magistrate/1570

https://ikmk.smb.museum/ndp/person/9612