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Æ18 - Claudius ΠΟΛΕΜΩΝ ϹΕΛΕΥΚΟΥ
| Issuer | Cidrama (Conventus of Alabanda) |
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| Year | 41-54 |
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| Weight | 3.88 g |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | A lighted or flaming altar shown frontally at centre, its stepped base and columnar shaft clearly articulated in the die work. Flames or decorative elements are visible at the top of the altar, consistent with votive altar types common on Carian provincial bronzes of the Julio-Claudian period. The magistrate's name legend ΠΟΛΕΜΩΝ ϹΕΛΕΥΚΟΥ is distributed in the field around the central device. |
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Cidrama was a minor Carian settlement whose civic coinage is poorly documented and survives in small numbers. The magistrate name Polemon son of Seleukos, rendered in the genitive on this issue, follows the standard Carian civic practice of naming the presiding magistrate rather than a mint official — a distinction that matters for attribution. The city's conventus membership under Alabanda placed it within Rome's administrative reorganization of Asia following the Sullan settlement, though Cidrama itself exercised enough autonomy to strike bronze on its own civic authority well into the Julio-Claudian period.