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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 4892422, member: 99456&quot;]This coin falls in a grey-zone - does self-rule qualify as non-Roman.&nbsp; It was not a sovereign state at the time that this coin was minted, it was a Roman protectorate that enjoyed its own government.</p><p><br /></p><blockquote><p><font size="4">In the Lycian confederacy, which consisted of 23 cities or republics, the largest were entitled to three votes in the Common Council, those of the middle class to two, and the smallest to one. The Common Council had the appointment of all the judges and magistrates of the respective Cities. This is certainly the most delicate species of interference in their normal administration; for if there be anything that seems exclusively appropriate to the local jurisdictions, it is the appointment of their own officers. Yet Montesquieu, speaking of this association says: “Were I to give a model of an excellent Confederate Republic, it would be that of Lycia”.</font></p><p><font size="4">-<a href="https://archive.org/details/federalistpapers1961hami/page/76/mode/2up/search/lycian" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://archive.org/details/federalistpapers1961hami/page/76/mode/2up/search/lycian" rel="nofollow">Hamilton, the Federalist Papers</a></font></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1180761[/ATTACH] </p><p><b>Lycian League, Masicytes</b>, circa 48-20 BC, AR hemidrachm, Period IV, Series 4</p><p><b>Obv:</b> Laureate head of Apollo right; Λ-Y below</p><p><b>Rev:</b> M-A, cithara (lyre); filleted palm frond in left field, all within incuse square</p><p><b>Size: </b>16mm, 1.92 g</p><p><b>Ref:</b> RPC I 3305; <a href="http://numismatics.org/digitallibrary/ark:/53695/nnan51012" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/digitallibrary/ark:/53695/nnan51012" rel="nofollow">Troxell</a><a href="http://numismatics.org/digitallibrary/media/nnan51012/archive/NNM162_295.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/digitallibrary/media/nnan51012/archive/NNM162_295.jpg" rel="nofollow">107</a></p><p><b>Notes:</b> more <a href="https://www.sullacoins.com/post/from-lycia-to-the-us-constitution" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.sullacoins.com/post/from-lycia-to-the-us-constitution" rel="nofollow">here</a> on this coin</p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>Next:</b> a coin issued autonomously, semi-autonomously, or pseudo-autonomously[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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