O monedă tomitană pentru Severus Alexander și câteva observații privind datarea emisiunilor monetare bătute la Tomis pentru acest împărat
A Tomitan Coin for Severus Alexander and Some Observations on Dating the Coin Issues Minted in Tomis for this Emperor

Summary/Abstract: Starting from a very interesting coin, a Tomis issue – type ”emperor withtrophy” - for Severus Alexander (AMNG No. 3254) with an overstruck reverse (a deitywith a patera in the right hand can be seen in the field of the coin), this study wishes todiscuss the time when the monetary issues dedicated to this emperor was issued by the mint of this city. Thus, a comparative analysis of the official Roman and provincial monetary issues, with the specified issuance year, has made it possible to establish alimited period of time for strucking these issues, between the beginning of the Persian campaign and the end of the reign of emperor Severus Alexander.Why were they issued? It is another question to which an answer is sought based on ancient writings, but also on modern studies.At the same time, the analysis of the monetary issues, strucked by the mint of Tomis,with a reverse dedicated to Emperor Severus Alexander raises serious questions about how the Roman propaganda was spread in the provinces and about how the types of monetary issues by provincial mints were chosen. These Tomis' monetary types have analogies among the Roman official types, issued by Rome or Antioch, but (surprisingly or perhaps not) also among those issued by mint of Alexandria (Egypt).

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