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Æ20 - Septimius Severus ΗΡΑΚΛΗΑϹ ΕΝ ΠΟΝΤΩ
| Issuer | Heraclea Pontica (Bithynia and Pontus) |
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| Year | 193-211 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | Hygieia, goddess of health, depicted standing and facing right, clad in a long chiton and peplos. She extends a patera in her right hand to feed a large serpent coiling upward before her, a standard iconographic type for this deity on provincial coinage of the Severan period. The figure is rendered in the conventional provincial Greek style, with the encircling mint legend framing the type in the field. |
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Heraclea Pontica had a complicated relationship with Rome during Severus's reign — the city had backed Pescennius Niger in the civil war of 193–194, and after Niger's defeat Severus punished it severely, stripping civic rights and subordinating the city to Amastris. That this local bronze was struck at all under Severus suggests either a partial restoration of minting privileges or survival from the very opening months of his reign, before the consequences of backing the losing side arrived.