Æ31 - Septimius Severus ΗΡΑΚΛΗΑϹ ΕΝ ΠΟΝΤΩ

Heraclea Pontica had a long habit of emphasizing its mythological founding by Heracles, and civic bronzes of this size from the Severan period reflect the city's sustained autonomy under Roman provincial administration — it retained its own magistrates and continued issuing civic coinage well into the third century. The city sat at the mouth of the Bithynian coast with deep roots in Greek colonization, originally settled by Megarians in the sixth century BC.

Large civic bronzes of this module from Heraclea Pontica are genuinely scarce in the reference literature; V.2 #72334 represents one of the less-documented emissions from the reign.