Æ29 - Caracalla ΑΜΑϹΤΡΙΑΝΩΝ

Amastris was a Pontic coastal city with an unusual pedigree — founded by a niece of Darius III who later married and divorced Lysimachus, one of Alexander's successors. By the Severan period it had long been absorbed into the Roman provincial system, but civic bronze issues like this one reflect the continued autonomy of local mints to produce coinage in the emperor's name without central direction from Rome. These provincials were funded and managed by the city itself, often tied to local festivals or the needs of small-denomination commerce.

The ethnic ΑΜΑϹΤΡΙΑΝΩΝ identifies the issuing community in the genitive plural — a formulaic but municipally proud assertion standard to Pontic civic coinage.