Æ37 - Septimius Severus ΕΠΙ ΑΡΧ ΖΩΙΛΟΥ, ΔΑΡΔΑΝΙΩΝ

Dardanus was a minor coastal city on the Hellespont, far more significant in Greek memory than in Roman administrative reality — it was here that Sulla and Mithridates VI negotiated the Peace of Dardanus in 85 BC, ending the First Mithridatic War on terms most of Rome considered humiliating. By the Severan period, the city's civic coinage was issued under local magistrates, with the archon Zoilos named on this piece — one of the few surviving records of his tenure.