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Æ18 - Severus Alexander ΑΒΥΔΗΝΩΝ
| Issuer | Abydus (Conventus of Adramyteum) |
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| Year | 222-235 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Reverse description | Two confronted stag heads placed back to back in the centre of the field, their antlers extending toward the upper portion of the flan. The ethnic legend of the issuing city encircles the design in Greek characters, identifying the coin as a civic issue of Abydus. The type likely alludes to a local religious or civic tradition associated with the city. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΑΒΥΔΗΝΩΝ (Translation: of the Abydenians) |
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Abydus, positioned at the narrowest point of the Hellespont, controlled the crossing between Europe and Asia for centuries — a strategic chokepoint that made the city wealthy enough to maintain active civic bronze coinage well into the third century. Under Severus Alexander the municipal mints of the Adramyteum conventus continued issuing small bronzes as a matter of local commercial necessity, Roman provincial silver being too valuable for everyday transactions at the market level.