Æ32 - Septimius Severus ΦΙΛΟΜΗ (ΕΩΝ) ΕΠΙ ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟ

Philomelium, a Phrygian city on the road between Laodicea Combusta and Iconium, issued civic bronzes under its own magistrates throughout the Severan period — the legend naming ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟΣ identifies the local strategos responsible for authorizing this particular emission. Such magistrate-linked issues were administrative acts as much as monetary ones, tying civic prestige directly to the official who ordered the strike.

Severus spent much of his reign at war — the Parthian campaigns of 197–199 being the most demanding — and provincial mints across Asia Minor continued producing bronze for local circulation entirely independent of Roman imperial oversight.