Æ45 - Severus Alexander ΕΠΙ ϹΤΡ Γ ΑΡΟΥΝ ΑΝΤΩΝΙΝΟΥ ΙΠΠΙΚΟΥ (?) ΘΥΑΤΕΙΡΗΝΩΝ

Thyatira, a Lydian city whose prosperity rested almost entirely on its dyeing and wool-working guilds, was an unusually active producer of large civic bronze under Severus Alexander. The magistrate name preserved in the obverse legend — partially reconstructed as Arounantinous Hippikos — has been a source of ongoing debate among specialists, with the question mark in the standard reference reflecting genuine uncertainty about whether the reading represents one official or two names conflated by the die-cutter.

VI#4399 is among the larger module pieces from this conventus, a size class Thyatira reserved for issues tied to specific festival cycles or benefactions.