Æ22 - Elagabalus ΠΡΟΥϹΑΕΩΝ

Prusa ad Olympum was a modest Bithynian city that nonetheless maintained active civic bronze production under Elagabalus, whose four-year reign generated an outsized volume of provincial issues relative to its brevity. The city's coins from this period reflect the administrative normalcy of a province that largely ignored the more scandalous dimensions of his rule in Rome — mint operations continued without interruption from 218 through his murder in 222.

The VI#3018 reference places this within Varbanov's corpus of Bithynian bronzes, a catalog notorious among specialists for incomplete die linkage documentation on Prusan issues specifically.