Æ38 - Severus Alexander ΕΠ Ϲ Π ΑΙ ΑΤΤΑΛΟΥ Τ Β ΕΡΥΘΡΑΙΩΝ

Erythrae, on the Ionian coast facing Chios, was a city of modest political standing by the Severan period — its coinage under Alexander reflects a municipal administration eager to display loyalty to the new dynasty while navigating the competitive honorific culture of the Smyrna conventus. The magistrate name embedded in the legend, identifying a local strategos or grammateus, anchors this piece to a specific civic moment that no longer survives in documentary sources.

Bronze civic issues of this size from the Smyrna conventus are increasingly scrutinized for die links across magistracies, and the Erythraean series remains incompletely catalogued below the largest denominations.