Æ28 - Septimius Severus ΥΠΙΟϹ ΠΡΟΥϹΙΕΩΝ

Prusias ad Hypium — modern Konuralp in northwestern Turkey — was a Bithynian city whose coins under Severus reflect the broader autonomy Roman provincial cities retained over their local bronze issues. The city name itself embeds both its geography and identity: "Hypius" for the river Hypios running nearby, "Prusias" for the Bithynian king who refounded it. Provincial bronzes of this reign are frequently underrepresented in major collections because systematic cataloguing of Bithynian civic coinage lagged well behind the Roman imperial series for most of the twentieth century.