Æ28 - Severus Alexander ΑΜΒΛΑΔΕΩΝ ΛΑΚΕΔΑ

Amblada was a minor Pisidian city — technically administered under the Roman province of Lycia et Pamphylia — that retained the right to strike civic bronze well into the third century. The pairing with Lakedaimon (Sparta) in the coin's legend reflects a documented practice of Pisidian and Pamphylian cities claiming fictive ethnic kinship with prestigious Greek poleis, a form of civic identity politics with no military or administrative substance behind it. Amblada's claim to Spartan ancestry appears on several issues and was almost certainly a local initiative rather than anything sanctioned by Rome.