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Hemidrachm
| Issuer | Stratonikeia |
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| Year | 25 BC - 25 AD |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse lettering | ΘЄOΦANHC |
| Reverse description | Nike, the goddess of victory, advancing to the right, depicted in flowing drapery and holding a victor's wreath in her extended right hand and a palm branch in her left. The magistrate's name KΛAYΔIOC (Klaudios) is inscribed in Greek legend above the figure. The entire design is set within an incuse square, a characteristic feature of civic bronze and silver issues from Stratonikeia in Caria. |
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Stratonikeia, a city in Caria (southwestern Asia Minor), was granted the status of a free city by Rome in the first century BC, which partly explains the persistence of civic bronze and silver issues into the early imperial period. This hemidrachm falls within that window of continued local autonomy — a moment when many Carian cities were quietly winding down independent coinage under growing Roman administrative pressure. Stratonikeia held out longer than most, partly because of its religious importance as the seat of the cult of Zeus Panamaros.