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Æ37 - Septimius Severus ΕΠΙ ΑΡΧΟΝΤΟϹ ΛΕΟΝΤΟϹ ϹΤΡΑΤΟΝΙΚΕΩΝ
| Issuer | Stratonicea, Caria |
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| Year | 193-211 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse lettering | ΕΠΙ ΑΡΧΟΝΤΟϹ ΛΕΟΝΤΟϹ ϹΤΡΑΤΟΝΙΚΕΩΝ |
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Stratonicea was one of the most politically durable cities in Caria, having leveraged its famous sanctuary of Hecate at Lagina to maintain autonomy through successive imperial transitions. The magistrate named in the legend — Leontios — is one of several local archons whose names survive almost exclusively through civic bronze issues of this period, the coins functioning as the primary record of municipal administration where papyrus did not.
Severus's Parthian campaigns of 197–199 AD generated intense loyalty-signaling across eastern provincial mints, and Stratonicea was no exception in aligning its civic coinage with the reigning dynasty during this stretch.