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Æ17 - Septimius Severus ΠΡΟΥϹΑΕΩΝ
| Issuer | Prusa ad Olympum (Bithynia and Pontus) |
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| Year | 193-211 |
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| Weight | 2.52 g |
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| Obverse description | Laureate head of Emperor Septimius Severus facing right, rendered in the typical provincial style of Bithynian civic coinage. The portrait displays characteristic features of Severus, including a short beard and defined facial structure. A circular Greek legend surrounds the effigy in the field, reading partially ΑΥΤ Λ ϹΕΠΤΙ ϹΕΥΗΡΟϹ, identifying the emperor by his imperial titulature. The flan is irregular in shape, a hallmark of hand-struck provincial bronze coinage of the period. |
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| Obverse lettering | ΑΥΤ Λ ϹΕΠΤΙ ϹΕΥΗΡΟϹ (Translation: Emperor Lucius Septimius Severus) |
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Prusa ad Olympum sat at the foot of Mount Olympus in Bithynia, a city that had been a minor but persistent issuing authority under the Severan dynasty. Septimius Severus secured the throne after the chaotic Year of the Five Emperors in 193 AD, and provincial mints across Asia Minor quickly aligned their output to acknowledge the new regime — this small bronze almost certainly belongs to that early wave of civic loyalty coinage.
The V.2 reference places this within Waddington, Babelon, and Reinach's *Recueil général* corpus, a classification system with known gaps in Bithynian material.