Æ15 - Septimius Severus ΥΡΚΑ (ΩΝ)

Hyrcanis was a minor inland settlement in Lydia whose civic coinage under Septimius Severus represents one of the more obscure municipal issues of the Smyrna conventus. The town's name almost certainly derives from Hyrcanian settlers — or at least a claimed connection to them — planted in the region during the Hellenistic period. Issues from Hyrcanis are rare enough that die links between surviving specimens have proven difficult to establish in any systematic way.