Æ44 - Septimius Severus ΕΠΙΜΕ ΡΟΥΦΟΥ ΠΟΛΥΔ ΑΝΤΩΝΙ ΑΤΤΟΥΔΕΩΝ

Attuda was a minor Phrygian city whose civic coinage depended almost entirely on the prestige of whoever held the local magistracy — the ΕΠΙΜΕΛΗΤΗΣ named on this piece, Rufus Polydas Antonianus, was almost certainly a wealthy citizen financing the issue himself, as was standard practice in the conventus system under Rome. Provincial bronzes of this size were not general circulation pieces; a 44mm flan at this weight functioned more as a civic statement than a transactional coin.

The conventus of Alabanda grouped geographically scattered Carian and Phrygian communities for Roman judicial and administrative purposes, and Attuda's output under Severus is sparse.