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Æ24 - Septimius Severus ΑΜΟΡΙΑΝΩΝ
| Issuer | Amorium (Conventus of Synnada) |
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| Year | 193-211 |
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| Weight | 6.78 g |
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| Reverse description | Tetrastyle temple depicted in elevation, its peaked pediment surmounted by acroteria, supported by four columns raised on a stepped podium of two or three steps. Within the intercolumniation stands a cult statue of a draped female deity facing left, rendered frontally within the naos. A circular object, possibly a patera or shield, is visible to the left of the temple facade. The city ethnic legend ΑΜΟΡΙΑΝΩΝ appears in the field, partially obscured by the coin's irregular flan. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΑΜΟΡΙΑΝΩΝ (Translation: of the Amorians) |
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Amorium sat in the Phrygian interior, well removed from the major commercial arteries of Asia Minor, which makes its civic bronze output under Severus relatively modest. The city had supported Pescennius Niger during the civil wars of 193–194, a political miscalculation that cost several Anatolian cities their privileges — though Amorium's precise fate in the post-war settlements remains poorly documented.
The V.2#94 reference places this within Voegtli's corpus of Amorian civic issues, a series with limited die study and several unresolved attribution questions.