Æ30 - Severus Alexander ΕΠΙ ϹΤΡΑ Μ ΟΡΔ ϹΑΤΟΡΝΕΙΝΟΥ ΔΙΟϹΕΙΕΡΕΙΤΩΝ

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.