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Æ19 - Severus Alexander Caesarea Maritima
| Issuer | Caesarea Maritima |
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| Year | 222-235 |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse script | Latin/Greek |
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Caesarea Maritima, rebuilt by Herod the Great and later the administrative capital of Roman Judaea, operated its civic mint with particular intensity during the Severan dynasty. The city held the status of a Roman colony — Colonia Prima Flavia Augusta Caesariensis — and its civic bronze issues under Severus Alexander reflect a mint actively asserting that colonial identity during a reign that saw relative stability after the turbulent end of Elagabalus.
Rosenberg's corpus of Caesarean coinage remains the specialist reference for this series, though attribution within the sequence can be complicated by die-sharing practices common to Levantine provincial mints of the third century.