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Chalkon Etenna
| Issuer | Etenna |
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| Year | 100 BC - 1 BC |
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| Value | Chalkon (1⁄48) |
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| Reverse description | A harpe (sickle-shaped knife or curved blade) depicted centrally, oriented vertically with the curved blade facing left, rendered in bold relief. The ethnic inscription ET-EN is divided across the fields to either side of the harpe, referencing the issuing city of Etenna in Pisidia. The design is set within a plain field with no border, consistent with the informal striking style of this series. |
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| Mintage | ND (100 BC - 1 BC) |
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Etenna was a minor city of Pisidia in southern Anatolia, caught for much of this period between the competing pressures of Seleucid withdrawal and Roman administrative reorganization of Asia Minor. The city struck its own bronze coinage in this window largely because it could — Rome's interest in small Pisidian civic mints was minimal, and local autonomy in bronze issues persisted long after silver was effectively consolidated under Roman provincial control.
The three standard references align on this type without recorded die varieties of note, suggesting a relatively stable, if modest, civic emission rather than a crisis or commemorative striking.