Æ35 - Septimius Severus ΕΠ ΠΡΥ ΙΟΥΛΙΑΔΟΥ ΤΟ ΙΕΡΟΚΛΕΟΥ ϹΤΡΑΤΟΝΙΚΕΩΝ (sic)

Stratonicea, situated in Caria, was a city that leveraged its religious prestige — home to major cults of Zeus Chrysaoreus and Hecate at nearby Lagina — to negotiate favorable terms with successive Roman administrations. The magistrate name preserved in the legend, fragmentary and misspelled as the "sic" notation flags, is typical of provincial bronze where die cutters working from written instructions introduced errors that were never corrected between obverse and reverse pairing.

Coins of the Stratonicean civic series under Severus are sparsely represented in major collections, partly because the conventus of Alabanda produced far lower volumes than the dominant Lydian minting centers to the north.