Æ30 - Severus Alexander ΗΡΑΚΛΕΩΤΑΝ ΠΟΝΤΩ

Heraclea Pontica had a long habit of asserting its colonial Greek identity on coinage well into the Roman imperial period — the city traced its founding to Megarian and Boeotian settlers in the 6th century BC and never let Rome forget it. Under Severus Alexander, whose reign brought relative stability after the chaos of Elagabalus, provincial mints across Bithynia and Pontus resumed output with some regularity. The reference VI#3544 places this among a catalogued but thinly documented group; Heraclean bronzes of this reign are not common in any systematic collection.