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Æ12 - Antoninus Pius ΑϹΚ ϚΜϹ
| Issuer | Ascalon (Syria) |
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| Year | 138-161 |
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| Weight | 1.94 g |
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| Reverse description | A galley facing left occupies the central field, its hull, oar, and mast rendered schematically in the provincial style. The Greek civic legend ΑϹΚ ϚΜϹ is divided around the vessel, with ΑϹΚ (abbreviation for Ascalon) below and ϚΜϹ (civic year 249 of the Ascalonite era) above or around the galley. The galley type is a recurring emblem on Ascalon coinage, referencing the city's maritime identity on the southern Levantine coast. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Ascalon's civic bronze coinage under Antoninus Pius continued a municipal minting tradition stretching back centuries — the city had operated its own mint almost without interruption since the Seleucid period. The era date encoded in the legend (ΑϹΚ ϚΜϹ) places this piece within Ascalon's own civic calendar, which the city counted from 104 BCE, a dating convention it jealously maintained through successive imperial administrations as a mark of municipal autonomy.