Æ24 - Septimius Severus ΕΠΙ ΓΑΙΟΥ ΑΡΧ ΒΑΓΗΝΩΝ

Bagis was a minor Lydian city whose civic coinage under Septimius Severus was issued under the authority of a local magistrate named Gaios — the ΕΠΙ ΓΑΙΟΥ formula identifying him as the presiding official responsible for the issue. Provincial bronze of this conventus rarely attracted serious scholarly attention until Imhoof-Blumer's systematic work on Lydian civic coinage in the late nineteenth century began pulling these obscure magistrate issues into the catalogued record. The reference to ΒΑΓΗΝΩΝ in the ethnic confirms Bagis rather than any neighboring Lydian community, a distinction that matters given how frequently attributions in this region were scrambled by early collectors.