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Æ29 - Septimius Severus ΚΑΙϹΑΡΕΙΑϹ ΓΕΡΜΑΝΙΚΗϹ
| Issuer | Caesarea Germanica (Bithynia and Pontus) |
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| Year | 193-211 |
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| Diameter | 29 mm |
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| Obverse description | Laureate and cuirassed bust of Geta as Augustus facing right, depicted from the rear in three-quarter perspective, with paludamentum visible at the shoulder. The effigy is rendered in the provincial style characteristic of Bithynian civic coinage. A Greek legend encircles the bust within the field. |
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| Reverse description | Tyche, the personification of the city's fortune, standing left in full figure, wearing a turreted crown and draped garments. She holds a ship's rudder in her right hand and a cornucopia in her left, symbols of prosperity and divine guidance. The Greek civic legend is distributed around the field in a circular arrangement. |
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Caesarea Germanica, a small Bithynian city on the Parthenos River, exercised the right to strike provincial bronze under Septimius Severus — a privilege likely secured or renewed in the political turbulence following the Year of the Five Emperors in 193 AD. Severus, having eliminated his rivals Pescennius Niger and Clodius Albinus by 197, consolidated loyalty across the eastern provinces partly through permitting continued local coinage as a mark of civic recognition.
The city's output under Severus is sparse in surviving examples, making clean attributions to this issuer genuinely uncommon in the trade.