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Stratonicea, a Carian city refounded by the Seleucids in the third century BC, maintained its civic coinage under Roman provincial administration largely as a matter of local prestige rather than economic necessity. Bronze issues of this size and period circulated at the hyperlocal level, often within the city's immediate hinterland, while imperial silver handled serious commerce.

The conventus of Alabanda grouped Carian communities for Roman juridical administration — assizes were held there, and the association carried bureaucratic weight even when it meant little to daily urban life in Stratonicea itself.