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Æ35 - Septimius Severus ΠΡΥ ΖΩϹΙΜΟΥ ΔΙϹ ΠΟϹΙΤΤΟΥ ϹΤΡΑΤΟΝΕΙΚΕΩΝ
| Issuer | Stratonicea (Conventus of Alabanda) |
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| Year | 193-211 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Hecate standing facing, head turned to the left, wearing a kalathos upon her head, her figure rendered in high relief against a plain field. She extends her right hand to offer a patera and holds a long torch in her left hand, with a dog seated or standing at her feet. The encircling legend names the magistrate and the city of Stratonicea, running around the outer border within a dotted circle. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Stratonicea was among the more politically assertive cities of Caria, having leveraged its status as a double neokorate — a city granted the right to maintain two imperial cult temples — to secure minting privileges and civic prestige throughout the Severan period. The magistrate name encoded in this coin's legend, Ζώσιμος son of Ποσίττος, serving for the second time (ΔΙϹ), reflects the local euergetic aristocracy that funded and administered civic coinage as an act of public benefaction rather than state necessity.
Stratonicea's bronzes from this period are notable for their large module, a deliberate statement of civic ambition in a conventus where Alabanda nominally held administrative primacy.