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Æ12 - Antoninus Pius ΑϹΚ ΖΜϹ
| Issuer | Ascalon (Syria) |
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| Year | 138-161 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse description | Turreted, veiled, and draped bust of Tyche facing right, rendered in low relief on a small bronze flan. The turreted crown, indicative of the city goddess, is visible atop the veiled head. The drapery falls over the shoulder in typical Hellenistic civic style. The style is characteristic of provincial bronze coinage struck at Ascalon during the Antonine period. |
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| Reverse description | A galley depicted sailing to the right, rendered in low relief with oars or hull details suggested by the engraving. The vessel is a common emblem of Ascalon's maritime identity and commercial importance as a coastal Philistine city. The Greek municipal legend appears around or below the galley type. The overall style is consistent with small provincial bronzes of the mid-second century CE. |
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Ascalon, one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities on the Levantine coast, retained the right to strike its own civic bronze under Roman imperial oversight — a privilege jealously maintained through careful loyalty to Rome. The city dated its coins by its own civic era, the ΑϹΚ ΖΜϹ legend encoding a local year calculated from a founding epoch rather than from imperial accession, making precise absolute dating dependent on reconciling Ascalonian civic chronology with Antonine reign dates.