Coinage in Hellenistic Syria

The territory of Greater Syria—Syria proper, Phoenicia, and Coele Syria—developed its own patterns of coin production and monetization, often in relation to the great empires of the Seleucids and the Ptolemies, and later to Rome. Syria became an important center of Seleucid coin production, especially at Antioch as the western and eastern portions of the Seleucid empire were lost. Under the Ptolemies the mints of Phoenicia and Coele Syria were used primarily to finance wars with the Seleucids before their absorption into the Seleucid Empire. The tension between civic and royal identities and aspirations took visible form on the coinage in the second century bc, with the introduction first of quasi-municipal and then of fully civic coins making no reference to the authority of the crumbling Seleucid dynasty.

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