Æ35 - Septimius Severus ϹΤΡΑ ΑϹΙΑΤΙΚΟΥ ΕΡΜΟΓΕΝ ΘΥΑΤΕΙΡΗΝΩΝ

Thyateira, a Lydian city whose prosperity rested almost entirely on its dyeing and wool-working guilds, was unusually aggressive in cultivating imperial favor during the Severan period. The magistrate named in this coin's legend — Asiатikos Hermogenes — held the office of strategos, a municipal post that by this period carried largely ceremonial weight but still conferred the privilege of authorizing bronze issues in the emperor's name. Provincial bronze of this fabric was struck to facilitate local exchange; Roman silver rarely penetrated market transactions at the street level in western Anatolia.

The Conventus of Pergamum administered a vast swath of the Aegean interior, and Thyateira's issues under Septimius Severus are among the more prolific from that jurisdiction.