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Æ28 - Septimius Severus ΠΡΟΥϹΙΕΩΝ ΠΡΟϹ ΥΠΙΩ
| Issuer | Prusias ad Hypium (Bithynia and Pontus) |
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| Year | 193-211 |
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| Diameter | 28 mm |
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| Reverse description | Standing male figure, identified tentatively as Geta, facing left in full military attire, extending a patera over a flaming altar with his right hand and holding an upright spear in his left. Nike stands to his left, facing left, crowning him with a wreath held in her right hand and bearing a palm branch in her left. The civic legend of Prusias ad Hypium is inscribed around the reverse field. |
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| Mintage | ND (193-211) |
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Prusias ad Hypium occupied a strategically awkward position in Bithynia — close enough to the major Pontic trade routes to matter, too far from the provincial capital Nicomedia to dominate. Local bronze issues under Septimius Severus were almost certainly tied to the city's need to facilitate small-denomination exchange during a period when imperial silver was being debased to fund Severus's relentless military campaigns, including the civil wars against Pescennius Niger and Clodius Albinus that consumed the first years of his reign.