Æ22 - Severus Alexander ΑΒΥΔΗΝΩΝ

Abydus, positioned at the narrowest crossing of the Hellespont, retained enough civic pride under Roman rule to maintain a local bronze coinage well into the third century. The city had been strategically critical since antiquity — Xerxes bridged his famous pontoon crossing here in 480 BC, and the site continued to function as a primary transit point between Europe and Asia throughout the imperial period. Provincial bronzes from the Conventus of Adramyteum under Severus Alexander are relatively thinly documented, and VI#3923 remains one of the sparser entries in the Abydus civic series.