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Æ17
| Issuer | Termessos |
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| Year | 71 BC - 36 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Reverse description | Horse striding vigorously to the left, depicted in a dynamic posture with forelegs raised. The ethnic inscription ΤΕΡΜ appears in the lower field below the horse, serving as the civic abbreviation for Termessos. A Pisidian civic year numeral appears in the upper field above the horse, varying by issue. The design is rendered in a bold, abbreviated style consistent with autonomous Pisidian bronze coinage of the late Hellenistic period. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Termessos, a Pisidian city in the Taurus Mountains of southern Anatolia, was one of the few cities Alexander the Great declined to besiege — judging the approach too costly for the prize. That independence persisted for centuries. Rome granted Termessos formal autonomy in 71 BC under a lex de Termessensibus, making it a free city with the right to mint its own bronze coinage without Roman oversight, an unusually explicit legal guarantee that directly explains why this series exists at all.