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Æ23 - Antoninus Pius ΕΠΙ Γ ΑΝΙ Ι (sic) ΑΝΔΡΩΝΟϹ ΑΡΧ (Ω as closed ∩)
| Issuer | Alabanda (Conventus of Alabanda) |
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| Year | 147-161 |
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| Weight | 7.36 g |
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| Reverse description | The eponymous hero Alabandos depicted as a nude standing figure, facing forward with head turned to the left, grasping the reins or neck of a horse standing to the left behind him. The multi-line magistrate legend occupies the field, naming the archon responsible for the issue, and employs the archaic closed omega (∩) form throughout. The composition reflects the standard civic reverse type for Alabanda under the Roman imperial period, associating the city's identity with its mythological founder. |
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| Mintage | ND (147-161) |
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Alabanda, a Carian city whose civic pride ran high enough to rename itself Antiocheia for a period under the Seleucids before reverting, issued this bronze under a local magistrate whose name — ΑΝΔΡΩΝ — appears in the inscription with a notable orthographic irregularity: the omega is rendered as a closed arch (∩) rather than the standard open form. This is not damage or die wear. It reflects a regional lapidary habit documented sporadically across Carian civic bronzes, where the letter-cutter's convention diverged from mainstream Greek epigraphic practice.
The magistrate formula ΕΠΙ with abbreviated title places this within Alabanda's civic coinage under Antoninus Pius, a reign during which the conventus system gave Carian cities considerable autonomy in local bronze production.