Acrasus was a minor Lydian city whose civic coinage output was sparse enough that individual types are rarely documented with confidence. This small bronze falls within the reign of Septimius Severus, who came to power following the chaotic Year of the Five Emperors in 193 AD — a civil war that ended with Severus marching his Danubian legions directly into Rome. Provincial civic issues of this period often reflect a city's bid to align itself with the new dynasty, coinage functioning as a form of public loyalty declaration to whoever had just won.
The Conventus of Pergamum administered a wide scatter of such minor Lydian communities, each maintaining the right to strike small bronzes for local use.
Acrasus was a minor Lydian city whose civic coinage output was sparse enough that individual types are rarely documented with confidence. This small bronze falls within the reign of Septimius Severus, who came to power following the chaotic Year of the Five Emperors in 193 AD — a civil war that ended with Severus marching his Danubian legions directly into Rome. Provincial civic issues of this period often reflect a city's bid to align itself with the new dynasty, coinage functioning as a form of public loyalty declaration to whoever had just won.
The Conventus of Pergamum administered a wide scatter of such minor Lydian communities, each maintaining the right to strike small bronzes for local use.