Æ26 - Septimius Severus ΑΡΧ ΦΛ ΒΑ ΠΡΟΚΛΟΥ, ΑΒΥΔΗ

Abydus, perched at the narrowest crossing of the Hellespont, had been strategically vital since antiquity — it was here that Xerxes bridged his famous pontoon crossing into Europe in 480 BC, and the city never quite let the world forget its geographic importance. Under Septimius Severus, civic bronzes of this type were authorized under local magistrates, with the archon's name — here Flavius Proklos — prominently credited as a mark of municipal prestige rather than administrative formality. The Conventus of Adramyteum was among the more active assize districts for such civic issues during the Severan period.