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| Issuer | Aspendos (Pamphylia) |
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| Year | 200 BC - 30 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Reverse description | A caduceus depicted upright at center, comprising a winged staff entwined with two serpents, the wings visible at the top and the double shaft descending to the lower field. The emblem of Hermes is rendered in clear, if somewhat worn, relief against a plain field. A dotted border or pellets are visible flanking the caduceus on either side, a common decorative element on Aspendian bronzes of this period. No legend is present on this issue. |
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| Mint | Aspendus, Pamphylia, Turkey |
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Aspendos was among the most commercially active cities of Pamphylia, its prosperity built largely on river trade along the Eurymedon and on control of regional agricultural surplus. The city had a long tradition of autonomous bronze coinage that persisted well into the Roman provincial period, and this issue falls somewhere in that wide span when civic identity was being quietly negotiated against increasing Roman administrative pressure.
The SNG von Aulock reference places this type firmly within a well-documented die study, which is useful given how frequently Aspendian bronzes of this period appear in varying states of centering and flan quality — a product of busy, high-volume municipal minting rather than ceremonial production.