Æ44 - Septimius Severus ΧΑΡΗϹ Β ΙΕΡΕΥϹ ΔΙΟΝΥϹΟΥ ΑΝΕΘΗΚΕΝ, ΔΙΟΝΥϹΟΠΟΛΕΙΤΩΝ

The dedicatory inscription naming Chares II as priest of Dionysus places this issue within a well-documented Phrygian civic practice of financing bronze coinage through priestly office — the named magistrate bore personal responsibility for the striking costs. Dionysopolis in Phrygia, not to be confused with the Moesian city of the same name on the Black Sea, was a minor conventus center whose civic coinage under the Severan dynasty was both limited in volume and closely tied to local cult administration.

At 49.63g, this falls among the heaviest provincial bronzes of its region, a function of the large module rather than any deliberate weight standard.