Æ23 - Septimius Severus ΑΛΙΚΑΡΝΑϹϹΕΩΝ

Halicarnassus, better known today as Bodrum on Turkey's Aegean coast, retained its Greek civic identity well into the Severan period, continuing to strike bronze coinage in the name of its ancient polis rather than through any Roman imperial mint. The city's association with Mausolus — whose tomb gave the world the word "mausoleum" — lent it a prestige that provincial administrators rarely troubled to suppress.

Bronze civic issues of this conventus are sparsely documented, and the V.2 reference series itself remains incompletely catalogued for many Carian mints.