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Æ30 - Septimius Severus C I F SINOPE ANN CCLV
| Issuer | Sinope (Bithynia and Pontus) |
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| Year | 209-210 |
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| Weight | 11.82 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Sarapis stands facing, with head turned to the left, his right hand raised in a gesture of benediction and his left hand holding a long sceptre. The deity is depicted in long robes with the modius (grain basket) atop his head, a hallmark of his iconography. The Latin colonial legend encircles the figure within a dotted border, recording the colony name and the local Pontic era year CCLV (255), corresponding to 209-210 AD. |
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The dating formula on this coin — Anno CCLV, year 255 of Sinope's local era — anchors it to 209–210 AD, when Septimius Severus had just returned from his British campaigns and was consolidating dynastic authority through his sons Caracalla and Geta. Sinope, a Roman colony since Julius Caesar's settlement of 47 BC, maintained its own civic calendar from that founding, making these year-dated bronzes unusually precise chronological documents among provincial issues.
The colony's Pontic location gave it strategic importance as a Black Sea port, and its mint remained active well into the Severan period.