Æ17 - Septimius Severus ΥΠΑΙΠΗΝΩΝ

Hypaepa was a small Lydian city in the Cayster River valley, administratively folded into the conventus of Ephesus under the Roman provincial system. Its civic bronze issues under Severus are numismatically minor — low-denomination local currency struck to serve market transactions the imperial mint had no interest in supplying. The city is better known in ancient sources for its sanctuary of the Persian Artemis, a cult distinctly separate from the Ephesian Artemis and one of the few surviving traces of pre-Hellenistic religious continuity in the region.