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Æ23 - Septimius Severus ϹΤΡ ΛΕΟΝΤΟϹ ΤΗΙΩΝ
| Issuer | Teos (Conventus of Smyrna) |
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| Year | 193-211 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Tyche, right, wearing turreted crown; thyrsus on left shoulder |
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| Reverse description | Dionysus standing facing, head left, himation over lower limbs, holding cantharus in right hand, left resting on thyrsus; at his feet, left, panther |
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Teos, a coastal Ionian city best known in antiquity as the birthplace of the lyric poet Anacreon, struck civic bronze under the Severan dynasty through the administrative framework of the Smyrna conventus — one of the judicial districts Rome used to manage the densely urbanized province of Asia. The magistrate named in the legend, whose strategos title reflects the city's retained civic machinery under Roman oversight, is otherwise unattested in surviving records.
The V.2 reference places this among the systematically catalogued provincial bronzes of Asia Minor, though Teos issues from this reign remain sparsely represented in major collections.