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Æ25 - Septimius Severus ϹΕΙΒΛΙΑΝΩΝ
| Issuer | Siblia (Conventus of Apamea) |
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| Year | 193-211 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Siblia was a minor Phrygian settlement whose civic coinage output was modest even by the standards of small Asian conventus towns. Under Septimius Severus, many such communities seized on the new dynasty's consolidation after the chaos of 193 — the Year of the Four Emperors — to issue bronze civic coinage, partly as a public expression of loyalty and partly to address chronic small-denomination shortages that imperial mints rarely bothered to remedy in the interior of Asia Minor.
The Apamean conventus administered a sprawling cluster of these smaller Phrygian communities, with Apamea itself handling judicial oversight. Siblia's issues from this reign are scarce in any collection.