Æ31 - Septimius Severus ϹΕΒΑ ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟΠΟΛΕΙΤ ΕΠΙ ΑΡΙϹΤΟΔΗΜΟΥ

Hadrianopolis in Phrygia — not to be confused with the more famous Thracian city — was a minor civic mint that issued bronze provincials under local magistrates whose names appear in the coin legends. Aristodemos, named here, held the title of archon or equivalent civic office and would have been personally responsible for authorizing and overseeing this emission. Provincial bronzes of this type were not struck by imperial decree but by local initiative, funding civic functions and filling gaps in small-denomination currency that Rome's central mints had little interest in addressing.

The Philomelium conventus produced a relatively thin series under Septimius Severus, and magistrate-named issues help sequence emissions that otherwise lack regnal year markers.