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PHOENICIA, Tyre. Pseudo-autonomous issue. temp. Septimius Severus, AD 193-211. Æ (27mm, 11.99 g, 12h). Dated CY 321? (AD 195/6?). Laureate head of Melqarth-Hercules right, lion skin tied around neck / Octastyle temple of the Koinon of Phoenicia; Phoenician ethnic to left, AKTI in exergue. Rouvier 2246 var. (AKT in exergue); BMC 361. Fine, black patina, some roughness.
On most specimens of this type, AKT alone is found in the exergue, which is normally interpreted as a date. BMC (p. cxxxvi) raised the possibility that it referred to the Actian games, but noted that it would "...be strange that these alone, among the quasi-autonomous coins of Tyre, should be undated. Could it be that by AKT[I] a double purpose, the naming of the date and a festival, intended to be served?" (see footnote no. 3).
On most specimens of this type, AKT alone is found in the exergue, which is normally interpreted as a date. BMC (p. cxxxvi) raised the possibility that it referred to the Actian games, but noted that it would "...be strange that these alone, among the quasi-autonomous coins of Tyre, should be undated. Could it be that by AKT[I] a double purpose, the naming of the date and a festival, intended to be served?" (see footnote no. 3).