Æ29 - Septimius Severus ΙΟΥΛΙΟΠΟΛΕΙΤΩΝ

Iuliopolis occupied an awkward political position in Bithynia — a small inland city with limited economic reach, yet one that minted bronze with surprising regularity under the Severans. The city owed its name to Julius Caesar, refounded or renamed in his honor during the late Republican period, which made Severan-era civic coinage there a layered act of dynastic flattery reaching back two centuries.

Provincial bronzes from Iuliopolis are genuinely scarce in the market; the city's output was never large, and most pieces served purely local exchange before disappearing into hoards or soil.