Æ31 - Septimius Severus ΡΟΥΦΙΝΟϹ ΑΝΕΘΗΚΕΝ, ΒΡΟΥΖΗΝΩΝ

Bruzus was a minor Phrygian city in the Apamean conventus whose civic coinage under the Severans represents one of the more obscure corners of provincial bronze production. The inscription ΡΟΥΦΙΝΟϹ ΑΝΕΘΗΚΕΝ identifies the dedicant — a local magistrate named Rufinus who funded or authorized this striking, a common practice in Asia Minor where prominent citizens underwrote civic issues as acts of public munificence and self-advertisement simultaneously.

Very few coins attributable to Bruzus survive in any condition. The city's output was small and geographically contained, meaning most examples that do appear on the market derive from regional hoards rather than sustained circulation finds.