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Æ29 - Severus Alexander ΠΡΟΥϹΑΕΩΝ
| Issuer | Prusa ad Olympum (Bithynia and Pontus) |
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| Year | 222-235 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Mintage | ND (222-235) |
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Prusa ad Olympum sat at the foot of Mount Olympus in Bithynia, and civic pride in that geography ran through nearly every bronze issue the city produced under the Severan dynasty. The city had been refounded — or at least substantially reorganized — under Prusias I in the early second century BC, and its coins consistently invoked both that Hellenistic founding mythology and its Roman provincial standing simultaneously.
Severus Alexander's reign saw a notable uptick in civic bronze production across Bithynia, partly because the cessation of large-scale military donatives freed municipal treasuries to fund local issues.