Æ30 - Septimius Severus ΘΕΟ (?) ΑΡΧΟΝ ΚΕΡΑΜΙ

Ceramus was a minor Carian city whose civic coinage was administered under the conventus of Alabanda — one of the judicial districts Rome used to organize the Greek east. The partially legible magistrate inscription, read tentatively as ΘΕΟ ΑΡΧΟΝ ΚΕΡΑΜΙ, suggests a local archon whose full name the die-cutter may have abbreviated or whose legend has simply not survived cleanly on any known specimen.

Provincial bronzes of this size from Caria under Septimius Severus are thinly documented. The V.2 reference points to the Waddington corpus tradition, where many Ceraman types survive in single or very few examples.