Æ34 - Septimius Severus ΕΠΙ ϹΤΡ ΓΛΥΚΩΝΟϹ ΒΑΧΙΟΥ, ΘΥΑΤΕΙΡΗΝΩΝ

Thyatira, a prosperous city in Lydia known for its dye trade and craft guilds, was administratively answerable to the Pergamene conventus — the Roman judicial circuit through which the governor's authority was channeled into local coinage decisions. The magistrate named in the obverse legend, Glykon son of Bachios, held the office of strategos, the civic post responsible for authorizing and overseeing this bronze issue. Provincial bronzes of this size from Thyatira are not especially common, and named magistrate attributions help anchor otherwise difficult chronological sequences within Severan civic coinage.