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Æ26 - Septimius Severus ΠΡΥΜΝΗϹϹΕΩΝ
| Issuer | Prymnessus (Conventus of Synnada) |
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| Year | 193-211 |
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| Weight | 8.08 g |
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| Reverse description | Standing female figure of Dikaiosyne (personification of Justice) facing left in full length, draped in a long chiton and himation. She holds a pair of scales in her raised right hand, symbolising equity and fair judgment, and a bundle of ears of grain in her lowered left hand, alluding to abundance and prosperity. The figure is rendered in a classical provincial style typical of Phrygian civic coinage under the Severan dynasty. The ethnic legend of the Prymnessians runs around the periphery of the field. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΠΡΥΜΝΗϹϹΕΩΝ (Translation: of the Prymnessians) |
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Prymnessus was a minor Phrygian city whose civic coinage under Septimius Severus reflects the broader surge in provincial bronze production that followed his victory in the civil wars of 193–197. Cities across the conventus of Synnada seized on the new dynasty's consolidation as an occasion to assert local identity through bronze issues — Prymnessus among the more obscure participants in that phenomenon. The city's output from this reign is sparse enough that individual specimens often represent the only surviving examples of their type.