Æ27 - Septimius Severus ΑΥΓ ΚΡΗΤΙΕΩ ΦΛΑΟΥΙΟΠΟΛΙΤΩΝ

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.