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Æ35 - Septimius Severus ΕΠΙ ΑΡΧ ϹΥΘΙΚΟΥ Δ ΑΤΤΟΥΔΕΩΝ
| Issuer | Attuda (Conventus of Alabanda) |
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| Year | 193-211 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Reverse description | Cybele, the Phrygian mother goddess, wearing a kalathos (cylindrical crown), depicted standing facing, flanked by two lions in heraldic arrangement. In the field to the left and right, a star and crescent motif appears, symbolizing celestial divinity and common in the iconography of Asia Minor provincial coinage. The reverse legend names the local magistrate and city in Greek, encircling the central type. |
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| Mintage | ND (193-211) |
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Attuda was a small Phrygian city of no great political weight, but its civic coinage under Septimius Severus reflects the broader rush among Asian municipalities to court the new Julio-Severan dynasty after the civil wars of 193 AD. The magistrate name preserved in the obverse legend — Sythikos — is otherwise sparsely attested, making this piece a minor but genuine contribution to the prosopography of Roman provincial administration in Phrygia.
The conventus of Alabanda, to which Attuda belonged for judicial and administrative purposes, produced a remarkable variety of civic bronzes across this period, yet Attuda's output remains among the thinner series catalogued from the region.