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Ceretapa Diocaesarea was a small Pisidian city whose dual name reflects the Roman administrative habit of appending "Caesarea" to local toponyms as a loyalty marker — the "Dio-" prefix distinguishing it from the dozens of other Caesareas scattered across Asia Minor. Its civic bronze coinage was produced under the Severan dynasty, a period when provincial mints across Pisidia were granted or simply assumed the right to strike local bronze as Roman silver became increasingly unreliable in small transactions. The SNG von Aulock corpus remains the primary reference for this obscure mint, with very few institutions holding more than one or two specimens.