Æ43 - Septimius Severus ΕΠ ϹΤ Κ ΠΕΛΛΑ ΚΛΑΖΟΜΕΝΙΩΝ

Clazomenae, one of the twelve cities of the Ionian League, had long since ceded its classical importance by the Severan period, but retained enough civic pride — and enough wealth — to commission bronze medallions of this scale. Issues of 43mm and above from Asia Minor provincial mints were not routine coinage; they functioned closer to presentation pieces, likely distributed at civic festivals or to mark imperial honors received by the city. The magistrate name encoded in the obverse legend allows these to be sequenced within Severus's reign, though the precise year of this issue remains debated among specialists.