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Æ37 - Septimius Severus ΕΠΙ ΜΕΝΑΝΔΡΟΥ ΒΑϹ ϹΤΡΑ ΥΠΑΙΠΗΝΩΝ
| Issuer | Hypaepa (Conventus of Ephesus) |
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| Year | 193-211 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Septimius Severus facing right, seen from the rear, rendered in the typical provincial style of the Ephesian conventus. The emperor's portrait is presented with military paraphernalia, conveying imperial authority. The obverse legend encircles the bust in Greek characters identifying the emperor as Lucius Septimius Severus. |
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| Obverse lettering | Λ ϹΕΠ ϹΕΟΥΗΡΟϹ (Translation: Lucius Septimius Severus) |
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Hypaepa was a small Lydian town in the Cayster river valley whose civic coinage depended entirely on the prestige of its magistrates — naming the sitting strategos on the coin was not decoration but a political claim to Roman favor. The magistrate Menander named here held the office of basilikos strategos, a title blending Greek civic tradition with Roman provincial administration in a way peculiar to the conventus of Ephesus.
Under Septimius Severus, provincial mints across Asia Minor dramatically increased bronze output to compensate for a silver coinage increasingly debased at the imperial level.