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Æ18 - Antoninus Pius Αc ΝϹ
| Issuer | Ascalon (Syria) |
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| Year | 138-161 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Reverse description | A war galley (warship) depicted sailing to the left, with a prominent horizontal oar-bank and a curved prow clearly visible. The civic legend ΑϹ ΝϹ is inscribed in Greek characters in the field, denoting the city of Ascalon and the local civic year 250 of the Ascalonian era. The design reflects the city's proud maritime heritage and its importance as a coastal Philistine and later Hellenised port city. |
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| Reverse lettering | Αc ΝϹ (Translation: Ascalon, 250) |
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Ascalon, one of the ancient Philistine cities absorbed into the Roman provincial structure, retained the right to strike civic bronze throughout the Antonine period — a privilege jealously maintained by cities competing for status within Syria Palaestina. These local issues circulated within a tight regional radius, largely invisible to the broader imperial economy but essential to small transactions at the market and temple level.
The reference IV.3#9065 places this squarely within the Rosenberger corpus of Palestinian city coins.