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Æ32 - Claudius ΑΛΑΒΑΝΔΕΩΝ
| Issuer | Alabanda, Caria (civic coinage) |
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| Year | 41-54 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse lettering | ΑΛΑΒΑΝΔΕΩΝ |
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Alabanda had been a free city under Roman administration since the Republican period, and its civic coinage under Claudius reflects the municipality's continued autonomy to issue bronze for local exchange. The city — situated in the Marsyas valley inland from the Aegean coast — was prosperous enough to maintain its own mint through the Julio-Claudian period, though output was modest and issues from individual reigns are correspondingly scarce.
The ethnic legend ΑΛΑΒΑΝΔΕΩΝ marks this firmly as a civic rather than a provincial issue, struck on the city's own authority rather than that of the koinon.