Æ24 - Septimius Severus ΟΚΡΑΤΙΟΥ ΑΡ ΙΠΠΟΥΡΙ

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.