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Æ19 - Septimus Severus or Caracalla BPIANΩΝ
| Issuer | Bria |
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| Year | 193-217 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Isis depicted standing facing left in full figure, her body clad in a long chiton and himation, raising a sistrum in her right hand and holding a situla (sacred water bucket) in her lowered left hand. The figure is rendered in the canonical Hellenistic style typical of Egyptian deity imagery on provincial bronze coinage. The ethnic legend BPIANΩΝ is inscribed in the field, identifying the issuing city of Bria in Thrace. The composition is enclosed within a beaded border. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Bria was a minor Pisidian city whose civic bronze output was modest even by regional standards — the settlement rarely appears in ancient sources, and its coinage series is thin enough that attribution debates between Septimius Severus and Caracalla remain unresolved for several types, this piece among them. The overlap in their co-reign from 198 AD narrows the window somewhat, but the absence of distinguishing titulature on small provincial bronzes makes certainty elusive. BMC Greek records only a single example.