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Æ14 - Septimius Severus ΑΚΡΑϹΙΩΤΩΝ
| Issuer | Acrasus (Conventus of Pergamum) |
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| Year | 193-211 |
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| Reference(s) | RPC V.2#81517 |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse lettering | ΑΚΡΑϹΙΩΤΩΝ (Translation: of the Acrasians) |
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Acrasus was a minor Lydian city of little political weight, and its civic bronze issues under Septimius Severus were struck in small quantities for purely local exchange. The conventus of Pergamum administered dozens of such communities, each jealously maintaining the right to strike their own civic coinage — a privilege Rome tolerated as long as it remained confined to low-denomination bronze with no threat to the imperial silver supply. This piece is about as far from Rome's financial machinery as provincial coinage gets.