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Æ35 - Septimius Severus ΕΠΙ ΓΡ ΓΛΥΠΤΟΥ ΤΡΑΛΛΙΑΝΩΝ
| Issuer | Tralles (Conventus of Ephesus) |
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| Year | 193-211 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Reverse description | Tyche, the personification of Fortune and civic patroness of Tralles, stands facing with head turned to left. She holds a ship's rudder in her right hand and a cornucopia overflowing with fruits in her left, emblematic of good fortune and civic prosperity. The reverse legend names the grammateus Glyptos as civic magistrate, a standard convention in the coinage of the Lydian city of Tralles during the Severan period. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Tralles, a prosperous city in the Maeander valley, was granted the right to strike civic bronze under Roman oversight through the conventus system — essentially a judicial circuit that also ratified local minting privileges. The magistrate name ΓΛΥΠΤΟΣ (Glyptos) appearing in the inscription is rare in the epigraphic record for this mint, suggesting a relatively brief or poorly-documented tenure. Provincial bronzes of this size from Tralles under Septimius Severus were struck during a period when the city was actively competing with neighboring Ephesus and Smyrna for honorific titles, a rivalry that directly influenced the volume and ambition of local coin production.