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Æ18 - Severus Alexander ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙΩΝ
| Issuer | Byzantium (Thracia) |
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| Year | 222-235 |
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| Weight | 3.51 g |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Julia Mamaea facing right, wearing a stephane and necklace, her hair arranged in horizontal ridged waves across the crown of the head. The portrait is rendered in a provincial style characteristic of Thracian civic issues of the Severan period. The Greek legend ΜΑΜΑΙΑ ΑΥΓ curves around the periphery of the flan. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Byzantium's civic bronze issues under Severus Alexander were struck by a city still centuries away from its imperial reinvention — at this point a prosperous but conventional Greek polis controlling the Bosphorus crossing and extracting tolls from Black Sea traffic. That geographic stranglehold made it wealthy enough to sustain a continuous civic coinage through the Severan dynasty without imperial subsidy.
At 3.51g, this falls toward the light end of the Æ18 range for the series, likely reflecting die wear or a late-period adjustment in flan preparation at the local mint.