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Æ27 - Septimius Severus ΑΜΟΡΙΑΝΩΝ
| Issuer | Amorium (Conventus of Synnada) |
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| Year | 193-211 |
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| Reference(s) | RPC V.2#505 |
| Obverse description | Bare-headed, draped and cuirassed bust of Geta as Caesar facing right, depicted from behind with the paludamentum visible over the left shoulder and the cuirass rendered in relief. The effigy exhibits the youthful features characteristic of Geta's early portraiture. The Greek legend encircles the bust in the field. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Amorium's civic coinage under Septimius Severus belongs to the broader flowering of bronze production across Phrygia during his reign, when provincial mints leveraged Rome's civil war chaos — and Severus's subsequent need for loyalty — to assert local prestige through coin issue. The city's name appears in the genitive plural on provincial bronzes of this type, a formulaic assertion of civic identity common to the Synnada conventus.
V.2#505 is the Voegtli corpus reference, a relatively specialized catalogue for Amorion that keeps this type outside the more commonly cited RPC or SNG frameworks.