Æ50 - Severus Alexander ΕΠΙ ϹΤΡ Λ ΜΑΡ ΠΩΛΛΙΑΝΟΥ ΘΥΑΤΕΙΡΗΝΩΝ

Thyatira, a city in Lydia better known from the New Testament as one of the seven churches addressed in Revelation, was a significant textile and dyeing center whose civic pride in monumental bronze coinage was unusually persistent into the third century. The magistrate named in the legend — Lucius Marcius Pollianus — served as strategos, the annually appointed civic official whose name authenticated the issue and whose family connections likely funded part of the striking costs.

At 50mm, these large civic bronzes required considerable die pressure and frequently show uneven flow at the flan edges — not a quality failure but a structural consequence of the metal volume involved.