Æ30 - Septimius Severus ΑϹΙΑ ΚΟΜΟΔ, ΛΑΟΔΙΚΕΩΝ

Laodicea ad Lycum was among the wealthiest cities in Phrygia, a status it owed partly to its position on the Lycus River trade route and partly to a thriving textile industry — the city's black wool was exported across the empire. Under Septimius Severus, Phrygian civic bronzes proliferated as local elites competed for imperial favor during the instability following the Year of the Five Emperors. The legend ΑϹΙΑ ΚΟΜΟΔ reflects the city's honorific title, a retention of Commodan-era nomenclature into the Severan period — an administrative curiosity that outlasted the emperor who granted it.