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Æ29 - Septimius Severus ΕΠΙ ΑΡΧ ΝΙΓΡΕΝΟΥ ΟΤΡΟΗΝΩΝ
| Issuer | Otrus (Conventus of Apamea) |
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| Year | 193-211 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Reverse description | An emperor, identified as Septimius Severus or possibly Caracalla, mounted on horseback and advancing to the right, his right arm raised in a gesture of salute or adlocutio. The horse is depicted in a prancing pose. A circular Greek legend naming the local archon and the civic ethnic of Otrus surrounds the equestrian scene. |
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| Mintage | ND (193-211) |
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Otrus was a minor Phrygian city whose civic coinage depended entirely on the prestige of a local magistrate willing to sponsor the issue — the archon Nigrenos named in the legend is the reason this coin exists at all. Such magistrate-sponsored bronzes from the Apamean conventus are sparsely documented, and V.2#1093 is among the fewer-cited references in the series, suggesting limited surviving die evidence for this particular pairing of emperor and official.