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Æ18 - Antoninus Pius ΓC ΓΑΖΑ
| Issuer | Gaza (Judaea) |
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| Year | 142-143 |
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| Value | Diassarion (⅕) |
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| Obverse description | Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Emperor Antoninus Pius facing right, rendered in the provincial style typical of Judaean civic coinage. A partial Greek legend surrounds the effigy, abbreviated as ΑΝΤωΝΕΙ, identifying the emperor. The portrait is executed in low relief characteristic of Gazaean bronze issues of this period. |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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Gaza's civic bronze issues under Antoninus Pius were tied to the city's Seleucid-rooted calendar, one of the few municipal eras still actively maintained in Judaea by the second century. The year ΓC — 203 by the Gaza era — places this coin precisely in 142/143 CE, a dating method that allows Gaza's sequence to be reconstructed with unusual precision compared to most provincial issues.