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Æ35 - Severus Alexander ΑΥΡ ΔΙΟΝΥϹΙΟϹ ΣΗΝΩΝΟϹ (sic) ΑΝΕΘΗΚΑ ΑΥΡ ΝΕΑΠΟΛΕΙΤΩΝ
| Issuer | Neapolis ad Harpasum (Conventus of Alabanda) |
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| Year | 222-235 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse lettering | ΑΥΤ Κ Μ ΑΥΡ ϹΕΥΟΥΗ (sic) ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟϹ (Translation: Emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius Severus Alexander) |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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Neapolis ad Harpasum was a minor Carian city whose civic coinage output under Severus Alexander was sparse — this piece belongs to a small group of locally dedicated bronzes where the dedicant names himself directly in the legend. The misspelling preserved in ΑΥΡ ΔΙΟΝΥϹΙΟϹ ΣΗΝΩΝΟϹ — almost certainly a mason or die-cutter's error for ϹΗΝΩΝΟϹ — is not a later corruption but baked into the original die, making every strike from it equally "wrong."
The Conventus of Alabanda administered several such small settlements whose bronze issues rarely traveled far beyond local use.