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<p>[QUOTE="Roman Collector, post: 7708165, member: 75937"]The letters S R begin to appear on the coins during the reign of Septimius Severus. At first they occurred only on coins of sestertius size, but they appear during the reign of Gordian III on smaller size, and from that time, on all the coins alike. These letters reflect the title of <i>Socia Romanorum</i>, the Latin translation of the Greek σύμμαχος Ῥωμαίων, meaning "ally of the Romans." This embodied the notion of Antioch's status as an independent city with continued loyalty to Rome during a century of increasing military pressure on the empire. In material terms, this meant the city sent recruits, provisions, and equipment to the armies on the eastern frontier.</p><p><br /></p><p>See Mitchell, Stephen, et al. <i>Pisidian Antioch: the Site and Its Monuments</i>. Duckworth, 1998, p. 11.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Roman Collector, post: 7708165, member: 75937"]The letters S R begin to appear on the coins during the reign of Septimius Severus. At first they occurred only on coins of sestertius size, but they appear during the reign of Gordian III on smaller size, and from that time, on all the coins alike. These letters reflect the title of [I]Socia Romanorum[/I], the Latin translation of the Greek σύμμαχος Ῥωμαίων, meaning "ally of the Romans." This embodied the notion of Antioch's status as an independent city with continued loyalty to Rome during a century of increasing military pressure on the empire. In material terms, this meant the city sent recruits, provisions, and equipment to the armies on the eastern frontier. See Mitchell, Stephen, et al. [I]Pisidian Antioch: the Site and Its Monuments[/I]. Duckworth, 1998, p. 11.[/QUOTE]
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