Æ33 - Septimius Severus ΑΜΙϹΟΥ ΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΑϹ ΕΤ ϹΜΑ

Amisus held the status of a free city — ΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΑϹ — under Roman rule, a privilege dating back to Pompey's reorganization of the Black Sea region in 64 BC and jealously maintained through successive imperial administrations. That autonomy allowed the city to issue its own bronze coinage on a local era, here ΕΤ ϹΜΑ, year 241 of the Pontic era, placing this piece firmly in 209–210 AD. Severus was in Britain for much of this period, campaigning north of Hadrian's Wall in what proved to be the last major Roman offensive into Caledonia.