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Æ20 - Vespasian ϹΥΝΚΛΗΤΟϹ
| Issuer | Alabanda (Conventus of Alabanda) |
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| Year | 69-79 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Reverse description | Personification of the Roman Senate (Synkletos) seated to the left upon a throne, draped, holding what appears to be a lituus (augural staff) in the right hand and a long sceptre in the left. The figure is rendered in a dignified, hieratic pose typical of provincial civic bronze coinage of the Flavian period. The Greek legend ϹΥΝΚΛΗΤΟϹ is disposed vertically in the field to the right of the seated figure. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Alabanda sat in the Carian conventus — one of the regional assize districts Rome used to administer justice across Asia Minor — and its civic bronze issues under the Flavians reflect a city leveraging the new dynasty's consolidation of power for local prestige. The ϹΥΝΚΛΗΤΟϹ inscription places this coin within a specific category of provincial issues that honored the Roman Senate rather than the emperor directly, a gesture with real political weight in the years immediately following the chaos of 69 AD, when senatorial legitimacy had been repeatedly invoked and just as repeatedly ignored.