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Æ26 - Severus Alexander ΤΑΒΗΝΩΝ
| Issuer | Tabae (Conventus of Alabanda) |
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| Year | 222-235 |
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| Diameter | 26 mm |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Julia Mamaea, mother of Severus Alexander, facing right, with diadem adorning her elaborately coiffed hair. The effigy is rendered in typical Severan provincial style, with the drapery visible at the shoulder. A circular Greek legend surrounds the portrait within the field. |
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| Reverse description | Poseidon standing to the right, nude, holding a long trident in his right hand and placing his left foot upon the prow of a ship; a dolphin appears behind him in the field. The composition reflects the maritime associations of the city of Tabae. The ethnic legend of the issuing city appears around the reverse field. |
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Tabae was a Carian hill town whose civic coinage under Severus Alexander reflects the administrative reorganization of Asia Minor under the conventus system — Alabanda serving as the judicial center to which Tabae belonged. These provincial bronzes were struck for local exchange and religious festival use, not imperial circulation. The conventus arrangement gave smaller poleis like Tabae access to recognized minting authority they could not have sustained independently.