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Assarion - Septimius Severus IVL AVG COL PARLAIS
| Issuer | Parlais |
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| Year | 193-211 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse description | Laureate and draped bust of Septimius Severus facing right, with characteristically curled beard rendered in fine detail. The emperor's effigy is depicted with a laurel wreath crown and paludamentum visible at the shoulder. The Latin imperial titulature legend runs around the periphery of the flan, partially visible due to the irregular striking. The portrait displays the distinctive physiognomy of Severus with strong facial features typical of Pisidian provincial coinage of the period. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Parlais — a Pisidian city granted colonial status under the Flavians — struck bronze coinage with enough regularity under Severus to suggest a functioning local mint administration, though the exact civic magistrates overseeing production remain unattested for this reign. The colony's issues are thinly documented; Aulock's corpus remains the primary reference, and even there, die linkage studies for Parlais are incomplete. Lindgren III#741 represents one of the few securely provenance-traced specimens used to establish the type.