Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
Æ34 - Septimius Severus ΑΡΧ ΙΟΥΝΙΟΥ ΤΟ ΔΕ, ΠΕΛΤΗΝΩΝ ΜΑΚ
| Issuer | Peltae (Conventus of Apamea) |
|---|---|
| Year | 193-211 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | 34 mm |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Confronted busts of Caracalla and Geta, both laureate, draped and cuirassed; Caracalla's bust faces right and is seen from the front, while Geta's bust faces left and is seen from the rear. The two imperial effigies are presented face-to-face in the characteristic dynastic portrait convention of the Severan period. The encircling Greek legend identifies the two co-emperors by their Caesar titles. |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | ND (193-211) |
| Additional information |
Peltae was a small Lydian city whose coins are poorly represented in major collections, making any civic bronze from the Severan period scarcer in the market than the reign's prolific imperial output would suggest. The magistrate name preserved in the legend — Iunios — anchors this piece to a specific local administrator otherwise unattested in surviving inscriptions, a detail that occasionally makes provincial bronzes the only record of a man's existence.
The Macedonian tribal designation in the ethnic reflects Peltae's claimed Macedonian colonial origins, a distinction the city maintained on its coinage long after it had any practical political meaning.