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Æ24 - Septimius Severus ΟΚΡΑΤΙΟΥ ΑΡ ΙΠΠΟΥΡΙ
| Issuer | Blaundus (Conventus of Sardis) |
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| Year | 193-211 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse description | Youthful laureate head of the Demos facing right, rendered in the Hellenistic civic tradition with idealized features. The neck is bare and the portrait is set within the field without a draped bust. The circular legend ΔΗΜΟϹ ΒΛΑΥΝΔΕΩΝ runs around the periphery, identifying the personification of the people of Blaundus. The coin is struck within a beaded border visible along the circumference. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Blaundus was a small Lydian city of modest regional standing, yet it maintained the right to strike civic bronze throughout the Severan period — a privilege extended to dozens of cities within the Sardis conventus as Rome increasingly delegated petty coinage to local authorities. The magistrate name preserved in the legend, likely a local strategos or grammateus, is otherwise unattested in the epigraphic record, making this coin one of the few surviving traces of his existence.