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Æ32 - Severus Alexander ΕΠΙ ϹΤΡ ΑΥΡ ΚΛΑΔΑΙΟΥ ΑΔΡΑΜΥΤΗΝΩΝ
| Issuer | Adramyteum (Mysia), civic issue under strategos Aurelius Kladaios |
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| Year | 222-235 |
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| Weight | 15.05 g |
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| Obverse description | Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Severus Alexander facing right, depicted from behind with the paludamentum visible over the left shoulder. The imperial effigy is rendered in the typical provincial style of Asia Minor, with the cuirass details discernible despite surface wear. A Greek imperial titulature legend encircles the bust in the field. |
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| Obverse lettering | ΑΥΤΚΡ (sic) Κ Μ ΑΥΡ ϹΕΒ ΑΛΕΖΑΝΔΡΟϹ (Translation: Emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius Severus Alexander) |
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Adramyteum, a coastal city in Mysia with a harbor active in grain and timber trade, retained the right to strike civic bronze under Roman imperial rule — a privilege exercised here under the named local magistrate Aurelius Kladaios, whose title of strategos places administrative authority firmly in Greek civic tradition even as the nomen Aurelius signals his family's enfranchisement under the Constitutio Antoniniana of 212 AD. Civic bronzes naming a strategos are useful precisely because they anchor an otherwise floating provincial issue to a specific local administration.