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Æ22 - Severus Alexander ΜΑΓΝΗΤΩΝ
| Issuer | Magnesia ad Maeandrum (Conventus of Miletus) |
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| Year | 222-235 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Reverse description | Dionysus stands facing with head turned to the left, depicted in the classical manner as the god of wine and revelry. In his right hand he holds a long thyrsus, the characteristic staff of Dionysiac cult, while in his left hand he extends a cantharus downward toward a panther positioned at his feet to the left. The panther, sacred to Dionysus, gazes upward toward the deity. The reverse legend ΜΑΓΝΗΤΩΝ is inscribed in the field, identifying the issuing civic authority of Magnesia ad Maeandrum. |
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| Mint | Magnesia ad Maeandrum |
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Magnesia ad Maeandrum, positioned in the Maeander valley southeast of Ephesus, was one of dozens of Ionian civic mints that struck bronze for purely local circulation under the Severan dynasty. The city's coinage during Alexander's reign is modestly documented but not especially rare — output was typical of a mid-tier Asian conventus city operating under the administrative oversight of Miletus.
Alexander's thirteen-year reign was the longest of any Severan emperor after Septimius himself, ending when his own troops murdered him in a Rhine camp after he attempted to bribe Germanic tribes rather than fight them.