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Æ29 - Antoninus Pius ΑϹΚΑΛω ΔΝϹ
| Issuer | Ascalon (Syria) |
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| Year | 138-161 |
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| Weight | 17.06 g |
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| Obverse description | Bare laureate and bearded head of Antoninus Pius facing right, rendered in the provincial style typical of Ascalonite civic coinage. The emperor's curling beard and wreath of laurel leaves are clearly delineated, with the portrait displaying the characteristic mature iconography of the later years of his reign. A Greek legend encircles the effigy in the field. |
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| Obverse lettering | ΑΝΤωΝΙΝΟϹ ϹΕΒΑϹΤΟϹ (Translation: Antoninus Augustus) |
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Ascalon — modern Ashkelon on the Israeli coast — was one of the few cities in the region to retain meaningful civic autonomy under Roman rule, and its coinage reflects that status directly. The city had long claimed Phoenician origins and maintained its own era dating system, the so-called Era of Ascalon, beginning in 104/103 BC, which means bronzes from the Antonine period carry regnal overlap with a local chronology most provincial mints had abandoned centuries earlier.
The reference IV.3#6373 places this within the Sofaer collection corpus, the primary systematic treatment of Palestinian civic bronzes.