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Æ38 - Septimius Severus ΠΡΥ ΖΩϹΙΜΟϹ ΤΟΥ ΠΟϹΙϹΤΟΥ ϹΤΡΑΤΟΝΙΚΕΩΝ
| Issuer | Stratonicea (Conventus of Alabanda) |
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| Year | 193-211 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND (193-211) |
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Stratonicea, a major city in Caria with deep ties to the imperial cult of Zeus Panamaros and Hecate, issued a substantial volume of civic bronze under Septimius Severus as the city worked to align itself with the new Severan dynasty after the chaos of 193 AD — the Year of the Four Emperors. The magistrate name inscribed, Zosimos son of Posistos, places this coin within a known sequence of local archonships documented in Stratonicean epigraphy.
The Alabanda conventus, to which Stratonicea belonged for Roman judicial administration, was not the city's natural cultural orbit — Stratonicea consistently punched above its administrative designation in civic coinage ambition and volume.