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Æ23 - Septimius Severus ΔΑΛΔΙΑΝΩΝ
| Issuer | Daldis (Conventus of Sardis) |
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| Year | 193-211 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed, draped and cuirassed bust of Geta as Caesar, facing right and seen from the rear, with the paludamentum visible over the left shoulder. The portrait displays the youthful features characteristic of Geta's early coinage. A Greek legend encircles the bust within the field, identifying the prince by his title. The flan is irregular in shape, as typical of provincial bronze issues of the Severan period. |
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| Reverse description | Heracles depicted standing to the right, his right arm raised and bent behind his back in a characteristic pose of repose. He holds the Nemean lion skin draped over one arm, while a club rests against a rock beside him. The composition is typical of the heroic Heracles type favoured in the coinage of Lydian cities during the Severan period. The ethnic legend ΔΑΛΔΙΑΝΩΝ occupies the field, identifying the issuing civic authority of Daldis. |
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Daldis was a minor Lydian city whose civic coinage under Septimius Severus reflects the broader explosion of Greek Imperial bronze production that followed his victory in the civil wars of 193–197 AD. Provincial mints across western Anatolia seized on each new reign to assert civic identity and maintain relationships with Roman authority — Daldis among them, though it was never a major issuing center. Its output under Severus is correspondingly sparse.