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Aigeai was a coastal city in Cilicia whose civic coinage of this period reflects the region's complicated political position — nominally under Seleucid authority through much of the second century, then increasingly subject to Roman interference as the dynasty collapsed. By the late second century, Cilician cities were operating with significant de facto autonomy, issuing bronze civic coinage to meet local exchange needs that the retreating Seleucid administration could no longer reliably supply. The SNG France 2288 reference places this piece within a well-documented but sparsely studied municipal series.