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Æ19 - Septimius Severus ΙΛΙΕΩΝ
| Issuer | Ilium (Conventus of Adramyteum) |
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| Year | 193-211 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse description | Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Caracalla facing right, depicted from the rear in the three-quarter perspective characteristic of provincial coinage. The effigy shows the emperor in military attire with paludamentum visible at the shoulder. The abbreviated Greek legend ΑΥ Κ Μ ΑΥ ΑΝΤΟΝΕΙ (Αὐτοκράτωρ Καῖσαρ Μάρκος Αὐρήλιος Ἀντωνεῖνος) arcs around the bust within a beaded border. The style is consistent with the provincial mint output of the Troad region under the Severan dynasty. |
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| Obverse lettering | ΑΥ Κ Μ ΑΥ ΑΝΤΟΝΕΙ |
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Ilium — the Roman city built over the ruins of Troy — traded heavily on its mythological prestige throughout the imperial period, and civic bronzes like this one were as much political currency as monetary. When Septimius Severus emerged victorious from the civil wars of 193, cities across the Greek east issued locally struck bronzes partly as loyalty signals to the new regime. Ilium's claim to be the ancestral home of Rome itself gave its coinage a particular ideological weight that few other Troas mints could match.