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Æ22 - Antoninus Pius ϹΤΡΑΤΟΝΕΙΚΕΩΝ
| Issuer | Stratonicea (Conventus of Alabanda) |
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| Year | 138-161 |
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| Weight | 7.01 g |
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| Obverse description | Zeus enthroned to left, draped and seated on a high-backed throne, extending his right hand to hold a small figure of Nike and grasping a long upright sceptre in his left hand. The figure is rendered in the provincial Hellenistic tradition, with drapery falling across the lower body and legs. A partial Greek legend arcs around the periphery, naming the local magistrate Athenokles. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Stratonicea's civic coinage under Antoninus Pius reflects the city's carefully maintained relationship with Rome following its earlier turbulent history — sacked by Labienus during the Parthian invasion of 40 BC, it had rebuilt its prestige substantially by the imperial period. The conventus of Alabanda, to which Stratonicea was assigned for judicial and administrative purposes, grouped several Carian cities under a single Roman circuit court, a structure that paradoxically reinforced local civic identity rather than suppressing it.
The twenty-three-year reign of Antoninus Pius produced an enormous volume of provincial bronze across Asia Minor, which makes die-linkage studies the primary tool for sequencing issues within it.