Æ34 - Severus Alexander ΠΕΛΤΗΝωΝ ΜΑΚ ΑΡΧ ΦΑΥϹΤΕΙΝΟΥ

Peltae was a minor Lydian settlement whose civic coinage under Severus Alexander represents nearly the full documentary record of the town's institutional life. The magistrate name Φαυστεῖνος (Faustinus) appearing in the legend places this issue within a small, partially catalogued sequence of bronze civic strikes from the Apamean conventus — the administrative grouping through which Roman proconsular jurisdiction was organized across inland Lydia. Local magistrates (ἄρχοντες) funded and authorized these issues from their own resources as a form of civic euergetism, which explains why survival rates correlate so tightly with individual magistrate tenures.