Æ30 - Septimius Severus ΕΠΙ ΓΡ Β ΦΛ ΒΑΛΕΡΙΑΝΟΥ ΒΑΡΓΑϹΗΝΩΝ

Bargasa was one of the more obscure Carian hill towns, its civic coinage output modest even by provincial standards. Under Septimius Severus, local magistrates — here the grammateus Flavius Valerianus, whose name anchors the obverse legend — held direct responsibility for authorizing and financing civic bronze issues, a Greek civic tradition the Roman administration left largely undisturbed in Asia Minor.

The grammateus title carried genuine administrative weight, not ceremonial function. Valerianus would have negotiated the issue locally, making this as much a document of Carian municipal politics as of Roman imperial authority.