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Æ23 - Trajan ΚΛ ΦΙ ΓΑΒΗΝΩΝ, ΑΟΡ
| Issuer | Gaba (Judaea) |
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| Year | 111-112 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse description | Laureate head of Emperor Trajan facing right, rendered in the provincial style typical of Syrian civic coinage. The emperor's portrait displays the characteristic Trajanic features with a laurel wreath crown. The surrounding Greek legend reads ΑΥΤΟΚΡ ΚΑΙϹ ΝΕΡ ΤΡΑΙΑΝΟϹ ϹΕΒ ΓΕΡΜ ΔΑΚ, citing his imperial titles including Augustus, Germanicus, and Dacicus. The flan is irregular and somewhat worn, consistent with provincial bronze coinage of the period. |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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Gaba, a Macedonian military colony in the Jezreel Valley refounded under Herod the Great, minted this bronze during Trajan's reign using its own civic era — year 171 by Gaba's local reckoning, anchored to an epoch likely established under Augustus or early in the Herodian reorganization of the region. The city's coinage is exceptionally scarce, its output apparently limited even in antiquity, and examples surface rarely in either trade or auction records.