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Æ22 - Septimius Severus ΑΠΟΛΛΩΝΙΕΡΙΤ
| Issuer | Apollonoshieron (Conventus of Sardis) |
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| Year | 193-211 |
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| Weight | 5.12 g |
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| Obverse description | Laureate, draped bust of Caracalla facing right, with short beard, the portrait rendered in the provincial style characteristic of the Lydian conventus. The circular Greek legend surrounds the imperial effigy, distributed across the field. A dotted border frames the entire design. |
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| Obverse lettering | ΑΥ Κ Μ ΑΥΡΗ ΑΝΤΩΝΕΙ (Translation: Emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus) |
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Apollonoshieron was a minor Lydian city whose civic coinage under Septimius Severus reflects the broader pattern of provincial mints leveraging the dynastic transition of 193 AD — the Year of the Five Emperors — to reassert local minting activity. Cities across the Sardis conventus resumed or expanded bronze production once Severus consolidated power, partly as a practical response to coin shortages during the civil wars against Pescennius Niger and Clodius Albinus.
The city's Greek ethnic legend ΑΠΟΛΛΩΝΙΕΡΙΤ is an abbreviated form attested in only a handful of die pairings recorded for this reign.