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Æ17 - Antoninus Pius ΑΙϹ ΓΑΖΑ
| Issuer | Gaza (Judaea) |
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| Year | 138-161 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Nude Heracles standing facing, head turned to left, his right arm resting on a grounded club and his left hand holding the Nemean lion skin draped over his arm. To the right of the figure appears the civic Gaza-symbol known as the mem, a distinctive local emblem used on Gaza civic coinage to identify the mint city. The Greek legend ΑΙϹ ΓΑΖΑ appears in the field, serving as the city ethnic identifying the issuing authority as Gaza. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Gaza held the right to strike civic bronze under the Antonines largely because of its status as a prosperous caravan terminus — the city controlled trade routes connecting Arabia and Egypt to the Mediterranean coast. Local civic bronzes from Gaza in this period were produced for small transactions within the city and its immediate hinterland, not for regional circulation, which explains why surviving examples typically show heavy wear concentrated on the highest relief areas rather than even field abrasion.
The ΑΙϹ dating formula refers to Gaza's civic era, which the city reckoned from 61 BCE following Pompey's reorganization of the Levant.