Æ35 - Septimius Severus ΙΛΙΕΩΝ

Ilium — the city built on or near the ruins of ancient Troy — leveraged its mythological prestige aggressively under the Severan dynasty, issuing civic bronzes that tied the emperor's legitimacy to the Trojan ancestry Romans had claimed since the Republic. Septimius Severus, who needed every legitimizing tool available after seizing power in the civil wars of 193, was a receptive audience for such flattery.

The Conventus of Adramyteum administered a stretch of the Troad that included Ilium, and civic bronzes from this jurisdiction are underrepresented in major collections relative to the better-documented Pergamene issues.