Æ32 - Septimius Severus ΕΠΙ ϹΤΡΑ ΑΡΤΕΜΙΔΩΡΟΥ Β ΑΤΤΑΛΕΑΤΩΝ

Attalea in Lydia — not to be confused with the more prominent Attaleia in Pamphylia — issued civic bronze under the formula naming the local magistrate responsible for the coinage, in this case Artemidoros. The phrase ΕΠΙ ϹΤΡΑ abbreviates ἐπὶ στρατηγοῦ, identifying him as strategos, the civic official whose name lent authority and accountability to the issue. This was not Roman imperial mandate but local Greek administrative tradition persisting well into the Severan period.

The designation ΑΤΤΑΛΕΑΤΩΝ confirms the civic ethnic, a point of local pride for a community that traced its Attalid-era foundations through Pergamene dynastic history.