Æ18 - Septimius Severus ΛΑΝΨΑΚΗΝΩΝ

Lampsacus, positioned on the Asian shore of the Hellespont, had been a strategically critical city since antiquity — controlling passage between the Aegean and the Black Sea. Under Septimius Severus, provincial bronze continued to be struck by local civic authority rather than the imperial mint, a decentralized arrangement that persisted throughout the Severan period across the conventus system of Asia Minor.

The city's inclusion in the conventus of Adramyteum rather than the more prominent Pergamum grouping reflects administrative boundaries drawn during the earlier reorganization of the province of Asia.