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Æ29 - Severus Alexander ϹΑΜΙΩΝ
| Issuer | Samos (Conventus of Miletus) |
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| Year | 222-235 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Edge | Plain |
| Mint | Samos |
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Samos sat within the conventus of Miletus under the provincial reorganization of Asia, and its civic bronze issues under Severus Alexander reflect a municipality still investing heavily in local prestige coinage well into the third century. The magistrate's name — where present — often provides the only surviving administrative record of that individual's tenure. This particular issue is catalogued under Voegtli's corpus, a reference that remains the specialist standard for Samian bronzes despite covering material that mainstream Roman provincial references handle only superficially.