Æ19 - Septimius Severus ΠΙΟΝΕΙΤΩΝ

Pionia was a minor Mysian community whose civic coinage output was sparse enough that individual issues are rarely attributed with confidence. The ΠΙΟΝΕΙΤΩΝ ethnic on this piece confirms civic authority rather than a provincial mint acting on the city's behalf — a distinction that matters for smaller Asian communities during the Severan period, when several towns lost or suspended independent coining rights. The conventus of Adramyteum administered a stretch of the Mysian interior where Hellenistic civic identity persisted stubbornly into the Roman imperial period.