Æ20 - Elagabalus ΔΙΗΝωΝ ΓΠϹ

Dium — the Macedonian colony in the Decapolis — struck this issue under Elagabalus during a period when the young emperor's religious reforms in Rome were generating active hostility in the Senate. Provincial mints in the eastern cities continued producing bronze coinage largely on their own civic initiative, and Dium's output under Elagabalus is sparse enough that individual die pairings can be tracked across surviving specimens. The Spijkerman reference places this firmly within the Transjordanian city's documented sequence.