Æ22 - Caracalla ΑΜΑϹΤΡΙΑΝΩΝ

Amastris was a Pontic coastal city with an unusually cosmopolitan history — founded as a synoikism of four smaller settlements by Amastris herself, niece of the Persian satrap Orontobates and later wife of Dionysius of Heraclea, then briefly of Lysimachus. By Caracalla's reign it had been a Roman provincial city for over two centuries, yet civic bronze issues like this one remained a point of local administrative and ceremonial identity, funded and authorized at the city's own initiative rather than imperial directive.