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Æ27 - Septimius Severus ΑΥΓ ΚΡΗΤΙΕΩ ΦΛΑΟΥΙΟΠΟΛΙΤΩΝ
| Issuer | Creteia-Flaviopolis (Bithynia and Pontus) |
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| Year | 193-211 |
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| Weight | 11.52 g |
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| Reverse description | The Emperor, depicted in full military dress with paludamentum, stands facing with head turned to the left. In his extended right hand he holds a patera pouring a libation over a small lighted altar set before him, while his left hand rests upon a long sceptre. The composition reflects standard imperial sacrificial iconography common to provincial bronze coinage of Bithynia and Pontus. The encircling Greek legend identifying the issuing city of Creteia-Flaviopolis runs around the reverse field. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Creteia-Flaviopolis was a minor Bithynian city with an administrative identity cobbled together from two earlier settlements — Creteia and Flaviopolis, the latter named under the Flavian dynasty. Its civic bronze issues under Septimius Severus are scarce precisely because the city's modest status kept mint output low, and because Bithynian bronzes as a class were heavily melted in late antiquity.