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Chalkon - Hadrian S C
| Issuer | Antioch on the Orontes (Syria) |
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| Year | 117-138 |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Reverse description | The senatorial monogram S C (Senatus Consultum — by decree of the Senate) displayed within a laurel wreath tied at the base, with no additional letter or symbol beneath. The wreath, composed of laurel branches bound at the bottom, frames the central inscription and occupies virtually the entire reverse field. The absence of a letter below the wreath identifies this as the subtype without mintmark control letter, corresponding to McAlee 543(j). |
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| Mint | Antioch on the Orontes |
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Antioch's autonomous bronze fractions of this period occupy an awkward administrative middle ground — struck under Roman imperial authority yet carrying the SC mark that nominally invoked senatorial sanction, a formula transplanted from Rome to the eastern mint largely as convention rather than constitutional reality. Butcher's work on Syrian coinage has shown that these smallest Antiochene bronzes circulated heavily at the local bazaar level, which is precisely why survivors in any discernible condition are harder to source than the larger denominations from the same reign.