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Æ23 - Commodus ΚοΡοΠΙϹ ΚΗ ΜΗΤΡ
| Issuer | Coropissus (Cilicia) |
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| Year | 177-192 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse lettering | ΑΥΤο ΚΑΙϹΑΡ Λ ΚΟΜΟΔ ΑΝΤ (Translation: Emperor Caesar Lucius Commodus Antoninus) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Coropissus was a minor Cilician city whose civic coinage under Commodus represents one of the few material traces of its administrative existence. The city held the title of metropolis — reflected in the ΜΗΤΡ abbreviation on this issue — a honorific that smaller Cilician communities pursued aggressively during the second century as a means of securing prestige and legal privileges within the Roman provincial hierarchy. Whether Coropissus actually functioned as a regional capital or simply purchased the title is a question the numismatic record alone cannot resolve.