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Æ34 - Septimius Severus ΕΚΤΩΡ ΙΛΙΕΩΝ
| Issuer | Ilium (Conventus of Adramyteum) |
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| Year | 193-211 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
| Obverse lettering | ΑΥ ΚΑΙ Μ ΑΥΡΗΛ ΑΝΤΩΝΙΝΟϹ |
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Ilium — the city built over the ruins of Troy — leveraged its mythological heritage aggressively under Roman imperial patronage. The Trojan connection was particularly useful during the Severan dynasty: Septimius Severus claimed descent from Aeneas through the city of Lepcis Magna's foundational myths, giving Ilium a direct ideological line to the emperor himself. Local civic bronzes invoking Hector were not incidental — they were a pointed reminder that the city's heroic past and the emperor's own claimed ancestry were, conveniently, the same story.