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Æ28 - Caracalla ΕΠΙ Π ΜΑΡΚΟΥ? ΕΡ?Μ, ΤΑΒΑΛΕΩΝ
| Issuer | Tabala (Conventus of Sardis) |
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| Year | 198-217 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse lettering | ΕΠΙ Π ΜΑΡΚΟΥ? ΕΡ?Μ, ΤΑΒΑΛΕΩΝ (Translation: under Publius Marcus Her(mes?), of the Tabaleans) |
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Tabala was a minor Lydian city of limited political weight, sitting in the Sardis conventus — the judicial district where Roman governors periodically held assizes. Civic bronze like this was struck on local authority, often to coincide with an imperial visit or simply to assert municipal dignity. The magistrate name partially preserved in the legend — likely a strategos or grammateus — is precisely the kind of administrative fingerprint that makes provincials from obscure mints valuable to historians reconstructing local civic hierarchies.