Æ35 - Septimius Severus ΘΕΜΙϹΤΟΚΛΗϹ ΑΠΟΛΛΩΝ ΑΡΞ ΚΕΡΑΜ

Ceramus was a minor Carian city whose civic coinage under Septimius Severus almost certainly reflects the administrative reorganization of Asia Minor following the civil wars of 193 AD. The magistrate name preserved in the legend — Themistokles, son of Apollon, archon of Ceramus — is one of the few surviving epigraphic traces of the city's local governing class, making this coin a rare document of provincial administration in a town otherwise poorly attested in ancient sources.