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Perinthus, seated on the Propontis in Thrace, was one of the most politically active provincial minting cities of the Severan and post-Severan period. Its civic coinage was produced with unusual ambition — the city had long competed with Byzantium for regional prestige, and that rivalry occasionally surfaced in the scale and variety of its bronze output. RPC III 721 falls within a broad mid-Severan to Gordian-era bracket, a period when Perinthus held the title of neokoros, having been granted the honor of maintaining an imperial cult temple.