Æ35 - Septimius Severus Ε (Ι) Π (Υ) ΙΟΥΛΙΑΔΟΥ ΤΟΥ ΙΕΡΟΚΛΕ ϹΤΡΑΤΟΝΙΚΕΩΝ

Stratonicea was one of the few Carian cities that managed to maintain a relatively active civic bronze coinage through the Severan period, a function of its status as a major religious center for the cults of Zeus Chrysaoreus and Hecate. The magistrate name preserved in this coin's legend — Hierokles, son of Iuliades — is precisely the kind of ephemeral local official whose tenure archaeology and epigraphy would otherwise leave entirely invisible.

The flan at 24.45g is on the heavier end for civic bronzes of this module from Asia Minor, suggesting this piece was struck early in the die's life before weight erosion crept in.