Æ31 - Severus Alexander ΕΠ ϹΤΡ ΑΥΡ ΤΕΡΤΥΛΛΟΥ ΓΛΥ ΑΠΟΛΛΩΝΙΔΕΩΝ

Apollonis was a small Lydian city whose civic coinage depended almost entirely on the goodwill of the Roman governor coordinating its issues — the magistrate named in the obverse legend, Aurelius Tertullus, held the position of strategos, a title that by the Severan period functioned more as a regional administrative appointment than anything resembling its original military meaning. The city minted sporadically, and surviving bronzes attributable to Tertullus's tenure are few enough that individual die links across the series are still being worked out in the specialist literature.