Æ17 - Severus Alexander ΕΦΕϹΙΩΝ

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.