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Æ29 - Septimius Severus ΗΡΑΚΛΕΩΤΩΝ
| Issuer | Heraclea Salbace (Conventus of Alabanda) |
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| Year | 193-211 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Reverse description | Dionysus standing facing with head turned to the left, his weight resting on a thyrsus held in his left hand and his left arm supported by a column. In his extended right hand he holds a cantharus. A panther reclines at his feet to the left, the sacred animal of the god. The ethnic legend of the issuing city appears in the field. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΗΡΑΚΛΕΩΤΩΝ (Translation: of the Heracleans) |
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Heraclea Salbace was a minor Carian city whose civic coinage under Septimius Severus reflects the broader pattern of provincial loyalty-signaling that followed the civil wars of 193 AD. Severus's victory over Pescennius Niger and Clodius Albinus consolidated his authority across the eastern provinces, and cities throughout the Conventus of Alabanda issued bronze in his name during the stabilization period that followed.
The city's name survives almost entirely through its coins — literary sources are sparse, and the site itself remains only partially identified near modern Vakıf in Turkey.