Æ28 - Severus Alexander ΙΟΥΛΙΟΠΟΛΕΙΤΩΝ

Iuliopolis occupied a strategically awkward position in Bithynia — small enough to be routinely overlooked by ancient sources, yet important enough as a road junction on the route between Nicomedia and Ancyra that it maintained civic coinage through several imperial reigns. The city's bronze issues under Severus Alexander are among its more frequently encountered, likely a product of relative provincial stability during his reign before the Sassanid campaigns consumed imperial attention.

The reference VI#3700 places this within Varbanov's corpus, where Iuliopolitan bronzes of this diameter cluster around a handful of known reverse types, most appearing in only modest numbers across major collections.