Æ22 - Septimius Severus Ε ϹΤ ΤΡΥΦΩΝΟ ΕΡΜΟΚΠΗ

Hermocapelia was a minor Lydian city whose civic coinage exists almost entirely because Greek cities under Roman rule competed aggressively for the right to strike bronze — a privilege granted by Rome and jealously maintained as a mark of local prestige. The magistrate name preserved in this legend, Tryphon, appears across a small cluster of issues from this city, allowing the type to be sequenced within Severus's reign even where no other chronological anchor survives.