Æ29 - Severus Alexander ϹΤΡΑ ? ΑΠΕΛΛΙϹΟΥ (sic) ΠΕΡΠΕΡΗΝΙΩΝ

Perperene was a minor Aeolian settlement whose civic coinage output was sparse enough that individual magistrate names on its bronzes are rarely attested in more than a handful of specimens. The abbreviated strategia inscription here — garbled in transmission or from the die-cutter — makes the magistrate's full name unrecoverable with certainty, which is reflected honestly in the catalog reference itself.

The conventus of Pergamum administered a wide arc of smaller communities whose coin production was episodic rather than continuous. For Perperene, the reign of Severus Alexander appears to represent one of its last documented minting episodes.