Sagalassos sat high in the Taurus Mountains of what is now southwestern Turkey, and its civic coinage reflects the city's unusual degree of autonomy during the late Hellenistic period — it maintained its own bronze issues even as neighboring Pisidian cities were absorbed more completely into the administrative machinery of the Attalid kingdom and later Rome. The city would eventually become one of the most prosperous urban centers of Roman Asia Minor, but these Republican-era bronzes predate that transformation entirely.
Sagalassos sat high in the Taurus Mountains of what is now southwestern Turkey, and its civic coinage reflects the city's unusual degree of autonomy during the late Hellenistic period — it maintained its own bronze issues even as neighboring Pisidian cities were absorbed more completely into the administrative machinery of the Attalid kingdom and later Rome. The city would eventually become one of the most prosperous urban centers of Roman Asia Minor, but these Republican-era bronzes predate that transformation entirely.