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Æ19
| Issuer | Isinda |
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| Year | 22 BC - 21 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed bust of Zeus facing right, with flowing curly hair and a full beard rendered in bold relief. The facial features are strongly modelled in the Hellenistic tradition, with a prominent brow and deep-set eyes. The hair falls in thick, undulating locks behind the neck. No legend appears in the field. The portrait occupies the majority of the flan. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Isinda was a small city in Pisidia, a rugged inland region of Asia Minor that Rome never fully administered through conventional means. Following Actium, Augustus reorganized the Greek East through a patchwork of client arrangements and civic grants rather than direct rule, and Pisidian cities like Isinda gained the right to strike local bronze precisely as part of that settlement — autonomous coinage being both a civic privilege and a practical necessity in regions where Roman provincial supply chains ran thin.
SNG France 1596 places this issue within a narrow documented window. Pisidian civic bronzes of this period are poorly represented in major collections.