Assarion - Pseudo-Autonomous ΤΑΒHNΩΝ

Tabae, a minor Carian city in the upper Kazanpazarı valley, issued pseudo-autonomous bronzes under this format during the period of Roman provincial reorganization in Asia Minor — coins struck in the city's own name rather than under an imperial portrait, a municipal assertion of civic identity that Roman administration generally tolerated in the eastern provinces. The attribution to SNG Copenhagen 521 anchors this to a well-documented but sparsely represented type; Tabae's output was never large, and the city itself appears infrequently in the epigraphic record.