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Laodikeia ad Lycum was founded by the Seleucid king Antiochus II around 261–253 BC and named for his wife Laodice. After Attalid rule and the Roman reorganization of Asia following Pergamon's bequest in 133 BC, the city fell into the new province of Asia — the date range of this issue maps directly onto that transition. Bronze civic coinage of this period was a municipal prerogative the Romans largely tolerated, and Laodikeia exercised it consistently throughout the late second and early first centuries.