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Æ23 - Septimius Severus ΦΙΛΟΜΗΛΕωΝ ΚΛ ΤΡΑΙΑ
| 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 | Male figure, tentatively identified as Septimius Severus, depicted in military dress standing to the left. He extends his right hand over a lighted altar holding a patera in the act of libation, while his left hand retains an upright spear or sceptre. The composition follows the standard provincial sacrificial reverse type, with the Greek civic legend of Philomelium distributed around the field. |
| Reverse script | Greek |
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Philomelium sat in the Phrygian interior, far enough from the Aegean coast that its civic bronze issues circulated in a genuinely local economy rather than competing with the denser monetary traffic of the western conventus cities. Severus's reign opened with civil war against Pescennius Niger and then Clodius Albinus, and provincial mints across Asia Minor — operating under the authority of their own civic magistrates — continued striking bronze largely undisturbed by those conflicts, their output governed by local demand rather than imperial directive.