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Æ19 - Augustus ΤΑΝΑΓΡΑΙΩΝ
| Issuer | Tanagra (Boeotia) |
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| Year | 27 BC - 14 AD |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | A tripod depicted facing, with three legs clearly rendered and a cauldron or bowl resting atop the support structure, a symbol of Apolline religious significance and a common civic type in Boeotian coinage. The ethnic legend ΤΑΝΑΓΡΑΙΩΝ is distributed around the field, identifying the issuing city of Tanagra. The overall style is characteristic of locally struck Greek provincial bronzes of the Augustan to Tiberian era. |
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Tanagra was a minor Boeotian city with little political weight by the Augustan period, yet its civic coinage continued — a pattern seen across Greek cities that used bronze issues primarily for local market transactions rather than any assertion of independence. The Koinon of Boeotia had long complicated individual city minting rights, making Tanagra's autonomous bronzes relatively scarce compared to output from Thebes or Thespiae.