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Æ38 - Septimius Severus Π (Υ) ΖΩϹΙΜΟΥ ΤΟΥ ΠΡΟϹΙϹΤΟΥ (sic) ϹΤΡΑΤΟΝΙΚΕΩΝ
| Issuer | Stratonicea (Conventus of Alabanda) |
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| Year | 193-211 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse description | Jugate confronted busts of Caracalla and Geta facing one another: Caracalla laureate, draped and cuirassed at left, Geta bare-headed and draped at right. The legend encircles the busts, identifying both co-princes in abbreviated Greek titulature. The composition is characteristic of provincial civic coinage celebrating dynastic concord during the Severan period. |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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Stratonicea, a Carian city granted its name by Antiochus I after he refounded it as a Macedonian colony, maintained the right to strike civic bronze throughout the Severan period — a privilege tied to its status as a major cult center for Zeus Panamaros and Hecate. The magistrate name rendered here as ΠΡΟϹΙϹΤΟΥ is a garbled form of a Greek title, and the sic notation flags what appears to be a die-engraver's error or an orthographic peculiarity of the local mint rather than a modern transcription slip.