Æ27 - Septimius Severus ΚΡΗΤΙΕΩΝ

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.