A Bronze Septimius Severus at Saitta, Issued by Charikles : An Avatar or Acolyte for the Moon-God Men? In Memory of Eugene Numa Lane
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�The Museum of Art and Archaeology owns one of the earliest egregiously large coins minted by Greek cities in the Roman Empire, a great bronze, issued for the Roman emperor Septimius Severus (193-211 C. E.) by the magistrate Sos. Charikles. Some of these medallion-size coins may have been struck to commemorate imperial visits or the celebration of Games. Some proclaimed an alliance between two cities; such Alliance issues may be labeled Omonoia (Concord). Other coins boasted of a city's prestige, as in the case of a Metropolis, designated as the administrative head of a region. Similarly, some cities had sought and fulfilled the privilege of Neokoria, maintaining an imperial cult, prestigious and flattering to both parties, for qualified cities. The coins, in these cases, usually bear the title Neokoros (the city as temple "warden"), occasionally even Neokoros for the second or third time. When cities put on Games, the coins with Agonistic motifs often proclaim the name of the Games, Alexandria, Pythia, Severa, or the like. Metropoleis, of course, are often so called in monumental epigraphy or historical texts as well. The coin presented here, one of the largest of the Severan period and issued at Saitta, a city in Lydia, seems, however, to fit none of these categories."�First paragraph.
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