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Æ22 - Severus Alexander ϹΚΑΜΑΝΔΡΟϹ ΙΛΙΕΩΝ
| Issuer | Ilium (Conventus of Adramyteum) |
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| Year | 222-235 |
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| Reference(s) | RPC VI#3943 |
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| Obverse lettering | ΑΥ Κ Μ Α ϹΕΥ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟ (Translation: Emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius Severus Alexander) |
| Reverse description | The river god Scamander depicted as a reclining, bearded male figure turned to the left, his body recumbent in the classical personification tradition. In his right hand he holds a reed, while his left arm supports an overturned vase from which water flows, symbolizing the river's source. The reverse legend ϹΚΑΜΑΝΔΡΟϹ ΙΛΙΕΩΝ appears in the field, identifying the deity and the issuing civic authority of Ilium. The composition reflects the Hellenistic artistic convention for river god imagery common to Troas provincial coinage. |
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Ilium — the Roman city built over the ruins of Troy — leveraged its mythological identity aggressively under the Severan dynasty, issuing civic bronzes that advertised the city's claim as the ancestral home of Rome itself. The Scamander river, sacred in the Homeric tradition as a divine ally of the Trojans during the siege, was a particularly pointed choice of reverse type for a city marketing its antiquity to an emperor who needed legitimacy. Caracalla had visited Ilium in 214 AD, performing rites at the tomb of Achilles — civic mints in the region remembered such imperial attentions and worked hard to sustain them.