Drachm

Sagalassos sat high in the Taurus Mountains and had already demonstrated its loyalty to Rome during the wars against Mithridates — a posture that earned it favorable treatment as Roman power consolidated across Asia Minor. This drachm belongs to a civic silver coinage that Sagalassos produced under its own authority, a privilege not universally extended to Pisidian cities, and one that reflected the town's particular standing with Rome in the decades following Actium.