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Æ15 - Septimius Severus ΝΙΚΑΙΕΩΝ
| Issuer | Nicaea (Bithynia and Pontus) |
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| Year | 193-211 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Reverse description | Nike, the winged goddess of victory, advancing left in dynamic stride, her drapery flowing behind her. She extends a wreath in her right hand and carries a long palm branch in her left, both attributes emblematic of martial triumph. The ethnic legend of the issuing city is disposed around the field in the standard arrangement of Bithynian civic coinage. |
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| Mint | Nicaea (Bithynia) |
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Nicaea's civic bronze issues under Septimius Severus reflect the city's careful cultivation of imperial favor during a period when backing the right claimant mattered enormously. Severus seized power in 193 AD following the murder of Pertinax, defeating rival claimants Pescennius Niger and Clodius Albinus in a civil war that stretched to 197. Bithynian cities had largely supported Niger, and Nicaea's prompt realignment — evidenced by civic bronzes bearing Severus's name — was a practical act of political survival.