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Æ30 - Severus Alexander ΕΠ ϹΤΡ (Ο (Π) Α (Λ) ΑΤΤΑΛΟΥ Τ Β ΕΡΥΘΡΑΙΩΝ
| Issuer | Erythrae (Conventus of Smyrna) |
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| Year | 222-235 |
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| Weight | 13.73 g |
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| Reverse description | Demeter standing facing, head turned to the left, draped in long robes, holding a tall sceptre in her left hand and a bundle of corn ears in her right. The goddess is depicted in the classical tradition of Hellenistic civic coinage, with the magistrate's legend arranged around the field in two lines and along the periphery, identifying the issuing city of Erythrae. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Erythrae was a minor Ionian polis whose civic coinage under Severus Alexander typically required a strategos to authorize issue — the ΕΠ ϹΤΡ formula names the presiding magistrate Attalos, serving in his second term (Τ Β). Second-term magistrate citations are notably less common than single-term issues in the Smyrna conventus, and their appearance on the coin ties this piece to a specific administrative moment rather than a general reign-wide production.