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Æ28 - Severus Alexander ΚΑΛΧΑΔΟΝΙΩΝ
| Issuer | Calchedon (Bithynia and Pontus) |
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| Year | 222-235 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Emperor Severus Alexander facing right, portrayed three-quarter from the rear in the characteristic provincial style. The imperial effigy displays careful rendering of the paludamentum and cuirass. The Greek legend encircles the bust within the field. |
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| Obverse lettering | Μ ΑΥΡ ϹΕΥΗ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟϹ ΑΥΓ (Translation: Marcus Aurelius Severus Alexander Augustus) |
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Calchedon occupied one of the most strategically valuable positions in the ancient world — perched at the mouth of the Bosphorus on the Asian shore, directly opposite Byzantium. The city had long been overshadowed by its neighbor across the strait, and Severus Alexander's reign offered a period of relative administrative stability under which provincial bronzes like this one circulated freely through the region's active commercial traffic. Chalcedon would later gain lasting significance as the site of the Fourth Ecumenical Council in 451 AD, but in the Severan period it remained a prosperous if secondary Bithynian city.