Æ35 - Septimius Severus ΠΡΥ ΖΩϹΙΜΟΥ ΔΙϹ ΠΟϹΙΤΤΟΥ ϹΤΡΑΤΟΝΕΙΚΕΩΝ

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.