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Æ22 - Caracalla ΒΑΓΗΝΩΝ
| Issuer | Bagis (Conventus of Sardis) |
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| Year | 198-217 |
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| Weight | 3.93 g |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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| Mint | Bagis, Lydia |
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Bagis was a small Lydian city whose civic coinage under Caracalla reflects the administrative reorganization of the Sardis conventus — the judicial circuit through which Roman governors dispensed law across the region. These minor civic bronzes were produced not by imperial directive but at local initiative, with city councils petitioning for the right to strike and bearing the costs themselves. The ethnic ΒΑΓΗΝΩΝ identifies citizens of Bagis specifically, a localism that mattered enormously to the issuing community even when the coins rarely traveled far.