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| Issuer | Sagalassos |
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| Year | 100 BC - 1 BC |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Reverse description | Two confronted ibexes, rearing and facing one another, with a tall cornucopia placed between them in the central field. The animals are rendered in a stylized Hellenistic manner, their forelegs raised as if in heraldic opposition. Beneath the design, a Greek civic inscription identifying the issuing city of Sagalassos is clearly legible, reading ΣΑΓΑ across the lower exergual area. |
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| Mintage | ND (100 BC - 1 BC) |
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Sagalassos, a Pisidian city in the Taurus highlands of southwestern Anatolia, maintained a vigorous local bronze coinage throughout the Hellenistic period despite — or perhaps because of — its geographic isolation from the major coastal minting centers. The city resisted Macedonian control longer than most regional settlements and retained a stubbornly independent civic identity that expressed itself partly through autonomous coin production well into the Roman provincial period.
SNG France 1735 places this piece within a catalogued sequence but leaves die relationships largely unresolved.