Æ25 - Septimius Severus ΙΟΥΛΙΟΠΟΛΕΙΤΩΝ

Iuliopolis was a minor Bithynian city with an outsized administrative history — originally named Gordioukome, it was refounded and renamed in honor of Julius Caesar, making it one of the few inland Bithynian mints to strike bronze civic coinage under the Severans. The city held no particular strategic weight, and its coin output under Septimius Severus was modest, which accounts for the relative difficulty in locating survivors today.

The V.2 reference places this within the Waddell-Delepierre framework for Bithynian provincials — a cataloguing tradition that itself remains incomplete for smaller civic mints like this one.