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Æ37 - Septimius Severus ΕΠ ΠΡΥ ΕΠΙΤΥΝΧΑΝΟΝΤΟϹ Γ ΦΙΛΩΝΟϹ ϹΤΡΑΤΟΝΙΚΕΩΝ
| Issuer | Stratonicea (Conventus of Alabanda) |
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| Year | 193-211 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Confronted busts of Septimius Severus and Geta: the laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Septimius Severus faces right, seen from the rear, while the laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Geta faces left, the two effigies presented vis-à-vis in the characteristic provincial confronted-bust arrangement. The surrounding legend identifies both emperors in Greek script, occupying the full circumference of the obverse field. The bold, high-relief portraiture is typical of the civic bronze coinage of Carian Stratonicea under the Severan dynasty. |
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| Mintage | ND (193-211) |
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Stratonicea sat in the conventus of Alabanda in the province of Asia, and its civic bronze issues under Septimius Severus were produced with considerable local autonomy — the magistrate's name embedded in the legend here, Philon, reflects the Greek city's insistence on naming its own officials even as Rome tightened provincial administration. The strategos formula was the standard mechanism by which Stratonicean civic authority announced responsibility for a coinage issue.
The city had been a significant religious center for Zeus Chrysaoreus, around which a broader Carian league had once organized. By the Severan period that political structure was long dissolved, but Stratonicea remained proud of its history.