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Æ35 - Severus Alexander ΕΠΙ ϹΤΡ ΑΥΡ ΜΟϹΧΙΑΝΟΥ ΤΟ Β ΑΚΡΑϹΙΩΤΩΝ
| Issuer | Acrasus (Conventus of Pergamum) |
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| Year | 222-235 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | Athena standing to the right, rendered in the classical tradition, holding an owl in her outstretched hand and resting against an upright spear. A large round shield is depicted at her feet, reinforcing her martial and civic attributes. The reverse legend, distributed around the field in Greek, names the local strategos Aurelius Moschianos serving for the second time, along with the civic ethnic of the Acrasians, reflecting the standard honorific coinage practice of Asia Minor under the Severan dynasty. |
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Acrasus was a minor Lydian city whose civic coinage under Severus Alexander survives in frustratingly small numbers, with most known examples concentrated in a handful of European collections. The magistrate name Aurelius Moschianus appears on a second term of office — the ΤΟ Β designation — suggesting the city returned him to the strategia, an unusual continuity worth noting for so small a mint.
The Conventus of Pergamum exercised administrative oversight of coinage across dozens of such Lydian communities, yet production volumes varied enormously between them. Acrasus sits near the bottom of that range.