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Æ34 - Septimius Severus ΕΠΙ ϹΤΡ Π ΑΙΛΙ ΕΥΤΥΧΟΥϹ, ΑΔΡΑΜΥΤΗΝΩΝ
| Issuer | Adramyteum (Conventus of Adramyteum) |
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| Year | 193-211 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse description | Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Caracalla facing right, depicted in three-quarter view from the front, with paludamentum visible over the left shoulder. The effigy presents the young emperor in military dress, consistent with his co-regency portrait type under Septimius Severus. A Greek legend encircles the bust along the periphery of the flan, partially visible despite heavy surface patination. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Adramyteum, a coastal city in Mysia, was granted the right to strike bronze coinage under Roman provincial authority, with the magistrate's name — here Publius Aelius Eutychus, whose Greek nomenclature suggests freedman origins within the imperial household — prominently credited on the issue. The "Aelius" gentilicium points to an ancestor manumitted under Hadrian, a common enough path to civic prominence in Asia Minor by the Severan period.
Provincial bronzes from the Adramyteum conventus are underrepresented in major collections, and dies for this magistracy are known in very small numbers.