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Æ32 - Septimius Severus ΑΜΙϹΟΥ ΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΑϹ ΘΕΡΜΩΔΩΝ ΕΤ ϹΜΑ
| Issuer | Amisus (Bithynia and Pontus) |
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| Year | 209-210 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Mintage | ND (209-210) |
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Amisus held the status of a free city — *eleuthera* — under Roman rule, a privilege it had negotiated carefully since the late Republican period and one that granted the city the right to strike its own civic bronze independent of the provincial mint at Pontus. The date ΣΜΑ corresponds to year 241 of the Pontic era, anchoring this piece precisely to 209–210 AD, the final joint reign of Septimius Severus with Caracalla and Geta before Geta's murder in 211.
The Thermōdōn river, named in the legend, runs through the Pontic hinterland near Amisus — its appearance here is a pointed assertion of local geographic identity at a moment when Severus was consolidating Roman authority across the eastern provinces.