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Æ23 - Severus Alexander ΜΑΓΝΗΤΩΝ
| Issuer | Magnesia ad Maeandrum (Conventus of Miletus) |
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| Year | 222-235 |
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| Reference(s) | RPC VI#5146 |
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| Obverse lettering | Μ ΑΥΡ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟϹ (Translation: Marcus Aurelius Alexander) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Magnesia ad Maeandrum was a city with a long habit of punching above its weight in civic coinage, and issues under Severus Alexander continue that pattern. The city's association with the cult of Artemis Leucophryene gave local authorities both the prestige and the motivation to maintain an active mint throughout the Severan period, producing bronze for local exchange within the Milesian conventus.
The reference VI#5146 places this within Viminacium's classification — though the broader corpus of Magnesian bronzes remains incompletely catalogued, and die linkage studies for this reign are sparse.