Æ33 - Septimius Severus ΑΔΡ ϹΕΥ ΑΝΤ ΑΜΑϹΙΑϹ ΜΗ ΝΕ ΠΡ ΠΟ ΕΤ ϹΘ

Amaseia — modern Amasya in northern Turkey — was the birthplace of Strabo and a former Pontic royal capital that retained outsized civic pride well into the imperial period. The city's local bronze issues under Septimius Severus reflect its status as a neokoros, a formal temple-warden designation granted by Rome that conferred prestige and the right to issue coinage. The legend's dating formula references the local Pontic era, anchoring this piece to year 209 of that reckoning — a civic calendar the city maintained stubbornly long after the Pontic kingdom itself had ceased to exist.