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Æ17 - Severus Alexander ΕΦΕϹΙΩΝ
| Issuer | Ephesus (Ionia) |
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| Year | 222-235 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse description | Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Severus Alexander facing right, depicted from the rear in three-quarter view. The emperor's effigy is rendered in the typical provincial style of the Ephesian mint, with the laurel wreath clearly indicated. The encircling Greek legend names the emperor in the nominative case. |
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| Mint | Ephesus (Ionia) |
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Ephesus retained its status as the preeminent city of the Asian province well into the Severan period, and civic bronze issues like this one were produced entirely on local authority — Rome neither mandated nor supervised the designs or output volumes. The mint was prolific under Severus Alexander, whose thirteen-year reign generated an unusually dense run of municipal bronzes across Ionia.
The VI#5027 reference places this within a well-documented but numerically large series, meaning die matches occasionally surface to help sequence production batches.