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Æ41 - Septimius Severus ΕΠΙ Γ Ι ΚΡΙϹΠΟΥ ΑΡΧ ϹΑΡΔΙΑΝΩΝ ΔΙϹ ΝΕΩΚΟΡΩΝ, ΕΥϹΕΒΕΙΑ
| Issuer | Sardes (Conventus of Sardis) |
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| Year | 193-211 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse description | Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Emperor Septimius Severus facing right, depicted from the rear, with paludamentum visible over the left shoulder. The portrait conveys imperial authority in the prevailing provincial die-cutting style of the Sardian mint. The encircling obverse legend in Greek characters names the emperor with his full titulature. |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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Sardis held the title of neokoros — official keeper of an imperial cult temple — twice over by the Severan period, a distinction the city pursued aggressively through embassies to Rome and competed for bitterly against rival Lydian cities. The magistrate name preserved in the legend, Krispos, helps anchor this issue within a sequence of dated civic bronzes from the conventus, and the Eusebeia type signals deliberate alignment of civic piety with Severan dynastic ideology at a moment when Septimius was still consolidating power after the civil wars against Pescennius Niger and Clodius Albinus.