Æ23 - Septimius Severus ΛΑΝΨΑΚΗΝΩΝ

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.