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Bronze AE 15
| Issuer | Selge |
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| Year | 300 BC - 100 BC |
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| Diameter | 15 mm |
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| Reverse description | Upright spearhead with shaft oriented vertically in the center of the field, flanked on either side by the Greek city abbreviation letters Σ (sigma) to the left and Ε (epsilon) to the right, denoting the civic authority of Selge. The design is enclosed within a dotted border. The composition is spare and emblematic, typical of Pisidian civic bronze coinage of the Hellenistic period. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Selge was one of the few Pisidian cities to maintain genuine political independence through the Hellenistic period, repelling even Alexander's general Ptolemy in 333 BC through a combination of mountain terrain and determined resistance. Its bronze coinage circulated locally in a region where Seleucid, Pergamene, and later Roman authority each attempted, with varying success, to draw the city into broader imperial frameworks.
The SNG France 2003 reference places this type within a well-documented series, though die studies suggest production was intermittent rather than continuous across the two-century span.