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Diassarion - Titus ΣΕΒΑΣΤΗΝΩΝ ΤΡΟΚΜΩΝ
| Issuer | Tavium |
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| Year | 69-79 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed, laureate bust of Titus facing right, with short curly hair and slight drapery at the shoulder. The portrait is rendered in a vigorous provincial style characteristic of Galatian civic coinage. A circular Greek legend surrounds the effigy along the coin's periphery, reading ΑΥΤΟΚΡΑ ΤΙΤΟΣ ΚΑΙΣΑΡ ΣΕΒΑΣ ΥΙΟΣ, identifying Titus as Autocrator, Caesar, Augustus, and Son (of Vespasian). The flan is slightly irregular, as typical of hammered provincial bronze issues of this period. |
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| Obverse lettering | ΑΥΤΟΚΡΑ ΤΙΤΟΣ ΚΑΙΣΑΡ ΣΕΒΑΣ ΥΙΟΣ |
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Tavium was the principal settlement of the Trokmi, one of the three Galatian tribes whose territory Rome reorganized repeatedly across the first century. This issue dates to the reign of Vespasian, who formalized the absorption of Galatia into the provincial system and suppressed much of the residual civic autonomy that had allowed cities like Tavium to strike their own bronze. That this coin exists at all suggests Tavium retained enough local administrative weight to continue issuing under the new Flavian order, at least briefly.