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Æ26 - Septimius Severus ΚΕΡΕΤΑΠΕΩΝ
| Issuer | Ceretapa Diocaesarea (Conventus of Cibyra) |
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| Year | 193-211 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Julia Domna facing right, her characteristic elaborately waved and ridged coiffure rendered in fine detail with hair drawn back in layered horizontal bands. The empress is depicted with drapery visible at the shoulder and upper chest, rendered in the provincial style typical of Phrygian civic coinage. The Greek legend encircles the bust within a dotted border. |
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| Obverse lettering | ΙΟΥΛΙΑ ϹΕΒΑϹΤΗ (Translation: Julia Augusta) |
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Ceretapa Diocaesarea was a small Phrygian city whose civic coinage survives in frustratingly thin numbers, making attribution to the V.2 corpus the primary means of pinning down these otherwise obscure bronzes. The city held the honorific suffix Diocaesarea — a designation shared by several Anatolian communities currying favor with the imperial house — though it never rose to administrative prominence within the Cibyra conventus.
Severus's reign saw a surge in provincial bronze production across Asia Minor, driven partly by chronic shortages of official Roman small change reaching the interior.