Æ26 - Septimius Severus ΒΛΑΥΝΔΕΩΝ ΜΑΚΕΔΟ

Blaundus was a Macedonian settler colony in Lydia — its coins habitually advertise this with the ethnic ΜΑΚΕΔΟ, a civic boast maintained for centuries after the original settlement. Under Septimius Severus, provincial mints throughout the Sardis conventus intensified output, partly in response to the civil wars of 193 AD that brought Severus to power against rival claimants Pescennius Niger and Clodius Albinus. Niger held the eastern provinces briefly, and civic mints in Asia Minor navigated that allegiance carefully before Severus consolidated control by 194.