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Æ26 - Domitian ΕΠΙ ΔΗΜΟϹΤΡΑΤΟΥ ϹΤΡΑΤΗΓΟϹ ϹΗΙΟϹ, ΖΜΥΡ
| Issuer | Smyrna (Conventus of Smyrna) |
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| Year | 90 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse lettering | ΔΟΜΙΤΙΑΝΟϹ ΚΑΙ ϹΕ ΓΕΡΜΑΝΙΚΟϹ ΔΟΜΙΤΙΑ ϹΕΒΑϹΤΗ |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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This provincial bronze was struck at Smyrna during the magistracy of Demostrates, whose name appears in the legend as strategos — the title used by civic magistrates responsible for authorizing local coinage under Roman oversight. The joint Chios-Smyrna legend is the genuinely interesting element here: it reflects a documented practice of homonoia coinage, where two cities issued coins together as a formal declaration of concord and mutual civic ties, a political gesture that carried real weight in the competitive honorific culture of the Aegean Greek cities under the Flavians.