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| Issuer | Elaiussa Sebaste |
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| Year | 100 BC - 1 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Winged Nike advancing to the left, wearing a chiton and peplos, her wings spread behind her. She holds a wreath outstretched in her right hand and a palm branch in her left, rendered in the dynamic Hellenistic style. The ethnic legend EΛAIOYΣIΩN is distributed in the field to the left, with the magistrate's initials TAP and date letters ΘΕ arranged vertically below. |
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| Reverse lettering | EΛAIOYΣIΩN TAP ΘE |
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Elaiussa Sebaste, on the coast of Rough Cilicia, began as a simple island settlement before Augustus connected it to the mainland via a causeway and refounded it as a Roman city — the "Sebaste" suffix marking that Augustan patronage. Civic bronze issues from this transitional century reflect the city's gradual shift from Hellenistic autonomy toward Roman provincial alignment, a process that reshaped both its administration and its minting authority.
The SNG Levante and SNG France concordance narrows attribution considerably for this type, though Rough Cilicia's civic bronzes remain among the less systematically studied of the Asia Minor series.