Æ22 - Septimius Severus ΕΠ ϹΟ ΧΑΡΙΚΛΕΟΥϹ ΑΡ ϹΑΙΤΤΗΝΩΝ

Saitta was a minor Lydian city whose civic coinage under Septimius Severus was administered through the conventus at Sardis, the old Attalid capital repurposed as Rome's judicial headquarters for the region. The magistrate name preserved in the legend — Charikleous — appears on a narrow cluster of issues from this reign, suggesting a brief tenure rather than a long civic career. Provincial bronzes from Saitta are genuinely scarce; the city lacked the output volume of Pergamon or Smyrna, and the conventus system meant coinage rights had to be negotiated rather than assumed.