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Æ32 - Caracalla ΚΟΙΝΟΝ ΚΥΠΡΙΩΝ
| Issuer | Koinon of Cyprus |
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| Year | 198-217 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse description | Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Emperor Caracalla facing right, with short curly beard and hair rendered in fine relief. The imperial effigy is portrayed with characteristic Severan vigour, the paludamentum fastened at the shoulder visible below the cuirass. A Greek legend in capital letters encircles the portrait within a dotted border, reading from left to right around the periphery of the flan. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Koinon of Cyprus — the island's provincial assembly — held the rare privilege of issuing its own bronze coinage under Roman imperial oversight, a concession granted partly to manage local cult obligations and civic expenditure without burdening the imperial mint. Under Caracalla, the Koinon was particularly active, producing a range of large-module bronzes tied to the imperial cult centered at Paphos, where the sanctuary of Aphrodite gave Cyprus its primary claim to religious and political relevance within the eastern provinces.
V. Canton's corpus remains the standard reference for Cypriot Koinon issues, though attribution within Caracalla's reign is complicated by the absence of precise regnal dating on the bronzes themselves — the 198–217 window spans his co-emperorship with Septimius Severus through his sole reign.