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Æ29 - Severus Alexander ϹΑΜΙΩΝ
| Issuer | Samos (Conventus of Miletus) |
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| Year | 222-235 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Diademed and draped bust of Julia Mamaea facing right, the hair elaborately arranged and bound with a diadem, with drapery visible at the shoulder. The effigy is rendered in the provincial Greek style typical of the Ionian mint at Samos. The encircling legend in Greek characters reads ΙΟΛΙΑ ΜΑΜΕΑ ϹΕΒ, naming the empress as Julia Mamaea Augusta, distributed around the periphery of the flan. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Samos struck bronze coinage under Severus Alexander as part of the broader civic minting activity permitted across the conventus of Miletus during the Severan period, when provincial cities competed for imperial favor partly through coin production honoring the ruling house. The island's claim to be the birthplace of Hera gave Samian civic coinage a distinctly local religious identity that persisted across imperial reigns.
VI#5285 is recorded in Voegtli's corpus of Samian bronzes. The ethnic ϹΑΜΙΩΝ in the genitive identifies the issuing community in the standard Greek civic formula.