Æ36 - Septimius Severus ΑΠΟΛΛΩΝΙΑΤΩΝ Π ΡΥΝΔΑ

Apollonia ad Rhyndacum was a Mysian city whose coins are rare enough that attribution disputes remain active in the literature. The conventus of Cyzicus grouped several such minor Mysian mints under Roman administrative oversight, and civic bronze issues of this scale — heavy, thick flans — were typically produced for local religious festivals or market activity rather than interregional commerce. Severus's civil war campaigns of 193–197 generated intense loyalty-signaling from eastern provincial cities, and a large-module civic bronze was one of the few tools a small polis had to demonstrate alignment with the new dynasty.