Anazarbus, situated in the Cilician plain near the Pyramus River, was a city that gained particular prominence under Rome's reorganization of the region following Pompey's settlement of 64 BC. This bronze falls within a turbulent window — the final convulsions of the Republic, Caesarian civil wars, and ultimately the brief Antonian client-kingdom arrangements in Cilicia under which local civic bronzes continued to circulate as the dominant small-change medium. The SNG von Aulock 5470 attribution places this squarely within the city's early autonomous civic series before its later imperial reorientation.
Anazarbus, situated in the Cilician plain near the Pyramus River, was a city that gained particular prominence under Rome's reorganization of the region following Pompey's settlement of 64 BC. This bronze falls within a turbulent window — the final convulsions of the Republic, Caesarian civil wars, and ultimately the brief Antonian client-kingdom arrangements in Cilicia under which local civic bronzes continued to circulate as the dominant small-change medium. The SNG von Aulock 5470 attribution places this squarely within the city's early autonomous civic series before its later imperial reorientation.