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Æ25 - Septimius Severus ΕΠ ϹΤΡ ΦΛ ΠΑΠΙΩΝΟϹ ΥΠΑΙΠΗΝΩΝ
| Issuer | Hypaepa (Conventus of Ephesus) |
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| Year | 193-211 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Bare, heavily patinated flan with no clearly discernible design elements visible due to extensive surface corrosion; the obverse type is recorded as a draped bust of Julia Domna facing right, rendered in typical provincial style of the Severan period. The legend ΙΟΥΛΙΑ ϹΕΒΑϹΤΗ (Julia Augusta) is recorded as encircling the imperial portrait, though it is not legible on this specimen. The portrait would have followed the conventional Severan provincial canon with elaborately waved and coiled hair. |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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Hypaepa was a minor Lydian city whose civic coinage depended almost entirely on the prestige of its magistrates to justify production runs. The strategos Flavius Papion named in the legend is otherwise unattested in the epigraphic record — his survival here, struck in bronze and circulated through a small inland market town, is effectively the only evidence he existed at all.