Æ23 - Severus Alexander C G I H P

Parion, a Roman colony on the Propontis established under Julius Caesar and refounded under Augustus, retained its colonial coinage privileges well into the Severan period. The city's coins consistently advertise its colonial status — a point of civic pride that distinguished Parion from the many non-colonial Greek cities issuing bronze in the same conventus. Severus Alexander's reign saw a broad continuation of Severan colonial bronze production across Asia Minor, though the administrative reorganization of the Adramyteum conventus under his predecessors had already consolidated which cities retained minting rights.