Æ23 - Caracalla ΤΙΑΝΩΝ

Tium was a minor coastal polis on the Black Sea shore of Bithynia, administratively unremarkable but persistent in its civic coin production under the Severan emperors. Provincial bronzes of this city are scarce in any condition — Tium issued in comparatively small volumes relative to the larger Bithynian mints at Nicaea and Nicomedia, and the city's output under Caracalla is among the thinner portions of an already thin civic series.