Similar in style, no? Post anything you feel is relevant! Septimius Severus. A.D. 193-211 Roman provincial AE 27.38 mm, 12.46 g, 1:00 Moesia Inferior, Marcianopolis. Magistrate Julius Faustinianus Obv: AV Λ CЄΠΤΙ CЄVHPOC, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind Rev: VI ΦAVCTINIANOV MAΡKIANOΠOΛITΩN, Cybele enthroned left, holding patera, resting left arm on drum, a lion reclines at each side of throne. Refs: AMNG Ia 565; Varbanov 780; Hristov & Jekov Marcianopolis 6.14.31.15; Moushmov 382. Septimius Severus. A.D. 193-211 Roman provincial AE 27.2 mm, 10.7 gm, 8:00 Thrace, Anchialus Obv: ΑV Κ Λ CЄΠ CЄVΗΡΟC, laureate and cuirassed bust, right Rev: ΟVΛΠΙΑΝΩΝ ΑΓΧΙΑΛΕΩΝ, Cybele enthroned left, holding patera, resting left arm on drum, a lion reclines at each side of throne. Ref: Moushmov 2817; AMNG III 469; Varbanov 213 var. (bust type).
Both are nice, but the celator in Marcianopolis did a better job. The one from Anchialus Cybele looks pregnant.
She's wearing some sort of sash or something, but in the Anchialus example, the upper edge of it is worn and indistinct and that's what makes her look pregnant. I wish it DID display the "mother of the gods" as pregnant--that would be fitting--but I don't think it was intentional.
Greek die engravers were known to travel. Sometimes the initial dies were engraved by an experienced engraver then subsequent dies copied by mint workers after that. Perhaps that continued in Roman times, too?
It is not a given that coins that are labeled with a city name were made there. I recall there are obverse dies that are known with reverses of two cities suggesting one may have struck coins for both.
That is the case with earlier Campanian coinages, which is what led Keith Rutter to conclude there was a central mint in Neapolis for all but some early Cumaean coins.
The five cities of Aeolis had a similar series with each city named after its founder and Amazon warrior Queen. Aeolis, Cyme. AE18. Amazon Kyme/Isis Obv: K VMH Amazon Kyme bust r., turreted. Rev: KVM AIWN Isis standing l., sistrum in r., situla in l. Time of Valerian to Gallienus. BMC 120 Aeolis, Myrina. Pseudo-autonomous AE17. AD 253-268. Amazon Myrina Obv: MVPE-INA, draped, turreted bust of Amazon Myrina left. Rev: ΜVΡEΙΝΑΩΝ, Tyche in long chiton with cornucopia in l. and rudder in r., standing left.
