Æ37 - Septimius Severus ΕΠΙ ΤΩΝ ΠΕΡ ΤΒ (sic) ΚΛ ΔΙΟΝΥϹΙΟΥ ϹΤΡΑΤΟΝΕΙΚΕΩΝ

Stratonicea, a city in Caria with deep roots in Seleucid settlement, was among the more active provincial mints under Severus — its civic coinage reflecting a local magistracy eager to advertise loyalty during a reign that began in civil war. The legend ΕΠΙ ΤΩΝ ΠΕΡ names a board of officials rather than a single magistrate, an administrative formula specific to this city's coinage and rarely seen elsewhere in the Alabanda conventus. The parenthetical "sic" in the catalog name flags a scribal or die-cutter error in the inscription, a not uncommon occurrence in provincial bronzes where the engraver worked from a written template he may not have fully understood.