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Æ25 - Septimius Severus ΘΥΑΤΕΙΡΗΝΩΝ
| Issuer | Thyatira (Conventus of Pergamum) |
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| Year | 193-211 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Thyatira, a Lydian city of modest strategic importance, punched well above its weight in bronze coinage output during the Severan period — likely because its position on the royal road between Pergamum and Sardis made it a natural clearinghouse for small transactions. The city's coins were struck under the authority of the Pergamene conventus, the administrative district through which Roman governors managed judicial and civic affairs across western Asia Minor.
Septimius Severus secured his legitimacy partly by cultivating provincial loyalty in exactly these mid-tier cities, and local bronze issues like this one functioned as a tangible expression of that relationship between emperor and civic elite.