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Æ22 - Septimius Severus ΠΕΛΤΗΝωΝ Μ ΤΡ (sic) ΤΑΤΑΡΙωΝΟϹ
| Issuer | Peltae (Conventus of Apamea) |
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| Year | 193-211 |
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| Weight | 5.68 g |
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| Obverse description | Laureate and cuirassed bust of Septimius Severus facing right, depicted from the rear in the characteristic Severan three-quarter back view. The emperor wears a radiate laurel wreath and military cuirass, rendered with pronounced sculptural relief typical of provincial Asian mint workmanship. The circumferential Greek legend is distributed around the bust within the field. |
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| Obverse lettering | ϹΕΠ ϹΕΥΟϹΗΡΟϹ Π ΑΥΓ (Translation: Septimius Severus Pertinax Augustus) |
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Peltae was a small Phrygian city whose civic coinage under Septimius Severus is notable chiefly for its administrative curiosity: the city fell within the conventus of Apamea, one of the judicial assize districts Rome used to organize provincial governance in Asia, and local magistrates occasionally appear on coins as a form of civic self-promotion. The magistrate name preserved here — Tatarianos — is otherwise poorly attested, and the garbled abbreviation Μ ΤΡ (sic) on the legend suggests either an engraver's error or an abbreviated title that has resisted confident expansion.