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Æ21 - Septimius Severus ΕΠΙ ΙΟΥΛΙΟΥ ΑΡΧ Α ΓΟΡΔΗΝΩΝ
| Issuer | Iulia Gordus (Conventus of Sardis) |
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| Year | 193-211 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Mint | Iulia Gordus |
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Iulia Gordus was a small Lydian city whose civic coinage depended entirely on the goodwill of Roman provincial administration — the magistrate named in the legend, identifiable as a first-time archon, would have personally financed or guaranteed the striking costs as a form of public euergetism. The city sat in the Conventus of Sardis, one of the judicial districts through which Rome administered western Anatolia, and its bronze issues served purely local exchange needs within that narrow orbit.
The reign of Septimius Severus saw a sharp increase in civic bronze production across the Greek East, partly driven by his repeated cash demands on provincial cities to fund the Parthian campaigns after 197.