Æ24 - Septimius Severus ΔΑΡΔΑΝΙΩΝ

The Dardanoi were a Trojan-descended people whose city sat in the Troad, and their coins lean hard into that mythology — but the existence of this bronze under Septimius Severus reflects something more administrative than cultural. Provincial bronze of this region was struck not by imperial directive but by civic magistrates working within the conventus system, meaning output was demand-driven and irregular. Surviving examples from Dardanus are genuinely scarce; the city was small, its mint sporadic.