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Æ30 - Severus Alexander ΕΠΙ ϹΤΡΑ Μ ΟΡΔ ϹΑΤΟΡΝΕΙΝΟΥ ΔΙΟϹΕΙΕΡΕΙΤΩΝ
| Issuer | Dios Hieron (Conventus of Ephesus) |
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| Year | 222-235 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse description | Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Emperor Severus Alexander facing right, depicted from behind in three-quarter rear view. The imperial portrait exhibits characteristic Severan dynastic features, with the laureate wreath rendered in fine detail. The legend is disposed in a circular arrangement around the bust within the coin's field. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΕΠΙ ϹΤΡΑ Μ ΟΡΔ ϹΑΤΟΡΝΕΙΝΟΥ ΔΙΟϹΕΙΕΡΕΙΤΩΝ (Translation: under strategos Marcus Hordeonius Saturninus, of the Diosireites) |
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Dios Hieron was a minor Lydian settlement whose civic coinage depended entirely on the prestige of its strategoi — the magistrates whose names appear prominently on the issues and whose personal financing often underwrote the minting costs. Satorninos, named here, held the office during the reign of Severus Alexander, the last of the Severan dynasty, who came to power at thirteen and was murdered by his own troops in 235 AD after soldiers deemed his Rhineland campaign insufficiently aggressive.
The conventus system placed Dios Hieron under Ephesian administrative jurisdiction, which is why these provincial bronzes circulated within a regional rather than purely local framework.