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Æ20 - Augustus ΓΑΡΓ
| Issuer | Gargara (Conventus of Adramyteum) |
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| Year | 27 BC - 14 AD |
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| Weight | 4.82 g |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | A bull charging or butting to the right, depicted in a dynamic stance with lowered head, rendered in a provincial Greek artistic style. The animal is shown in profile with musculature suggested by summary engraving. The civic abbreviation ΓΑΡΓ (for Gargareon, denoting the city of Gargara) appears in the lower field or exergue beneath the bull. The overall composition is typical of autonomous and semi-autonomous bronze civic issues from the Troad region during the Augustan period. |
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Gargara was a minor coastal settlement in the Troad, subordinate to the conventus centered at Adramyteum, and its civic bronze issues under Augustus are among the least documented of all Asia Minor municipal coinages. The city's output was small enough that die-linked specimens occasionally surface across different collections without scholars having previously noted the connection.