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Æ15
| Issuer | Ariassos |
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| Year | 150 BC - 50 BC |
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| Reference(s) | SNG France#1368 |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Ariassos was a minor hill city in Pisidia, a region of southern Asia Minor that resisted Hellenistic administrative absorption long after its neighbors had submitted. The city struck its own bronze coinage during a period when many comparable Pisidian communities were doing the same — a localized assertion of civic identity that owed more to tradition than to any formal monetary infrastructure. These issues circulated within a tight geographic radius and rarely traveled far.
The SNG France 1368 reference places this piece within a well-documented French collection baseline, but Ariassan bronzes remain poorly studied as a series.