Æ22 - Septimius Severus ΠΕΛΤΗΝωΝ Μ ΤΡ (sic) ΤΑΤΑΡΙωΝΟϹ

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.