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Æ29 - Caracalla ΑΝΤ ΚΟΛΩΝΙ ΤΥΑΝΩ ΕΤ ΙϚ

Issuer Tyana (Cappadocia)
Year 212-213
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Shape Round (irregular)
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Edge Plain
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Mintage ND (212-213)
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Tyana's colonial coinage under Caracalla reflects the city's elevation to Roman colony status, likely under Septimius Severus, which granted it the right to strike bronze with Latin colonial titulature — unusual for a Cappadocian mint more accustomed to Greek civic issues. The date ΕΤ ΙϚ, year 16, anchors this piece within a local colonial era rather than any imperial reckoning.

Tyana claimed descent from the Assyrians and was better known in antiquity as the birthplace of Apollonius, the first-century philosopher whose reputation shadowed the city's identity for centuries.

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