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Æ27 - Septimius Severus ΚΡΗΤΙΕΩΝ
| Issuer | Creteia-Flaviopolis (Bithynia and Pontus) |
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| Year | 193-211 |
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| Diameter | 27 mm |
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| Reverse description | Europa seated sidesaddle upon a galloping bull moving to the right, her veil billowing behind her in a characteristic arc — a motif closely associated with the mythological foundation legends of Crete and widely used on civic bronzes of the region. The figure of Europa is rendered frontally atop the bull, arms extended, in a dynamic composition filling the flan. The ethnic legend ΚΡΗΤΙΕΩΝ appears in the lower field and exergue, identifying the issuing community. The coin has a suspension hole at the top edge. |
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| Mint | Creteia-Flaviopolis |
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Creteia-Flaviopolis was a minor Bithynian city whose civic coinage output was sparse enough that individual issues can be tied to specific moments of local political maneuvering — bronze emissions like this one were typically authorized to mark loyalty declarations to a new emperor, and Septimius Severus's accession in 193 AD triggered exactly that kind of rush across the eastern provinces. The city's dual name reflects a Flavian-era refoundation, layered over an older settlement, and its coins remained a marginal series even within the already thin record of Pontic civic bronze.