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Æ36 - Septimius Severus ΕΠΙ ΠΡΥ ΛΕΟΝΤΟϹ ΤΟΥ ΑΛΚΑΙΟΥ ϹΤΡΑΤΟΝΕΙΚΕΩΝ
| Issuer | Stratonicea (Conventus of Alabanda) |
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| Year | 193-211 |
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| Diameter | 36 mm |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | Zeus Panamaros, draped and mounted on horseback, advancing to right, holding a long sceptre in his left hand; a lighted altar stands to the right of the composition. The deity is rendered in the distinctive Carian syncretic guise of Zeus Panamaros, the principal civic god venerated at Stratonicea, whose mounted iconography is characteristic of the local coinage. The reverse legend records the name and title of the presiding civic magistrate, the prytanis Leon son of Alcaios, along with the ethnic of the Stratoniceans. |
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Stratonicea, a major city in Caria, maintained unusual civic pride in its coinage through named magistrates — the prytanis Leon son of Alkaios named in the legend held a presiding civic office whose appearance on bronze issues was a deliberate assertion of local administrative identity under Roman provincial oversight. The Conventus of Alabanda grouped several Carian cities for judicial and administrative purposes, and Stratonicea's issues from the Severan period reflect a city still negotiating the terms of that arrangement.
The full dative formula naming the prytanis allows die linkage studies to place this issue within a relatively narrow window of Severan-era production.