Person GND

Name

Lucius Aelius Pigres

Magistrate and donor of an emission of huge bronze coins in Laodicea on the Lykus/Phrygia, issued presumably in AD 215 on the occasion of an Imperial visit by Caracalla.

He also appears with the title of Asiarchos.

Lit.: W. Leschhorn. Lexikon der Aufschriften auf griechischen Münzen II (2009) p. 756; R. Bennett, Local elites and local coinage. Elite self-representation on the provincial coinage of Asia, 31 BC to AD 275 (2014) pp. 79-80, 157-158 nos. 221-230.

Types

Asiarches Info, Magistrate (Ant) Info

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