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Æ23 - Septimius Severus ΦΙΛΟΜΗΛ ΕΠΙ ΑΚΟΥΤΟΥ
| Issuer | City of Philomelium (Conventus of Philomelium) |
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| Year | 193-211 |
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| Diameter | 23 mm |
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| Reverse description | Standing female figure, identified tentatively as Tyche, rendered in full length facing left in the field at centre. She extends her right hand forward holding a branch, while her left arm supports a cornucopia. The figure is rendered in the provincial style typical of Phrygian civic bronzes, with the Greek municipal legend distributed around the circumference of the coin. |
| Reverse script | Greek |
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Philomelium, a Phrygian city on the road between Apameia and Iconium, struck coins under local magistrates whose names appear on the issues themselves — ΑΚΟΥΤΟΣ being one such figure, likely a grammateus or strategos whose tenure can only be dated by the reign of the emperor honored. The city's bronze coinage under Septimius Severus is sparsely documented, and the V.2 reference corpus lists very few die pairings for this magistrate's issues, suggesting a short or limited emission rather than sustained civic production.