Æ24 - Septimius Severus ΕΠΙ ΔΙΟΓΕΝΟΥ ΑΡΧ ΒΑΓΗΝΩΝ

Bagis was a minor Lydian city whose civic coinage depended entirely on the authority of the Roman governor's conventus at Sardis — the magistrate name ΕΠΙ ΔΙΟΓΕΝΟΥ identifies the local archon responsible for this issue, a figure otherwise unattested outside the coin record itself. Provincial bronze of this type circulated within the conventus district and rarely travelled far, which partly explains why specimens turn up almost exclusively in western Anatolian find contexts.