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Æ24 - Septimius Severus ΕΠΙ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ ϹΑΛΗΝΩΝ
| Issuer | Sala (Conventus of Sardis) |
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| Year | 193-211 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Reverse description | Homonoia, the personification of concord and harmony, depicted standing facing with head turned to the left. She holds a patera in her extended right hand, symbolising ritual libation, and a tall sceptre in her left hand. The figure is rendered in the conventional standing pose characteristic of provincial bronze coinage from the Lydian region, with the magistrate's name and civic ethnic distributed in the field around her. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΕΠΙ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ ϹΑΛΗΝΩΝ (Translation: under Alexandros, of the Salenians) |
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Sala was a small Lydian city in the Hermus valley whose civic coinage under Septimius Severus almost always names a local magistrate — here Alexandros — in the standard eponymous formula. The city's output under Severus was modest, and magistrate-named bronzes from Sala appear infrequently in trade, suggesting limited original production runs rather than heavy attrition through circulation.