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Æ23 - Septimius Severus ΛΑΝΨΑΚΗΝΩΝ
| Uitgever | Lampsacus (Conventus of Adramyteum) |
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| Jaar | 193-211 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Schrift voorzijde | Greek |
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| Beschrijving keerzijde | Draped bust of Priapus facing right, the deity depicted with his characteristic features including flowing locks and a wreath or vegetal crown atop his head, with long wavy hair and beard rendered in fine parallel lines. The bust occupies the central field within a beaded border, with the ethnic legend of the Lampsacene civic authority inscribed around the periphery. Priapus held special religious significance at Lampsacus, where he was venerated as a principal civic deity. |
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| Aanvullende informatie |
Lampsacus, positioned on the Asian shore of the Hellespont, had been minting its own civic bronze throughout the imperial period — a privilege jealously maintained by Greek cities of the region as a marker of civic autonomy. Under Septimius Severus, whose civil wars against Pescennius Niger and Clodius Albinus reshaped provincial loyalties across Asia Minor, cities like Lampsacus renewed their coinage as a calculated gesture of alignment with the victor.
The conventus of Adramyteum administered a stretch of coastline where Lampsacus sat at a strategic crossing point used continuously since the Hellespontine campaigns of the Peloponnesian War.