Æ28 - Septimius Severus ϹΤΡ ΒΑϹΟΥ ΠΙΟΝΙΤΩΝ

Pionia was a minor Mysian city whose coins survive in embarrassingly small numbers — the settlement itself barely registers in ancient sources beyond Pliny's passing mention. Issues attributed to the Adramyteum conventus under Severus reflect Rome's administrative reorganization of Asia Minor's judicial districts, where local magistrates competed for the prestige of issuing civic bronze, the strategos named on this piece serving as both financial and civic authority.