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                <title>Roman Provincial Coin Type struck under Severus Alexander from Byzantium in Thrace</title>
                                    <editor>Joe Shephard supported by a fine-tuned OpenAI GPT-4o mini model</editor>
                <editor>Jerome Mairat supported by a fine-tuned OpenAI GPT-4o mini model</editor>
                                    <funder>John Fell OUP Research Fund</funder>
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                            <origDate datingMethod="#julian" notBefore-custom="222" notAfter-custom="235">Severus Alexander</origDate>
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						<persName type="emperor">
						    <name type="praenomen" key="Marcus"><expan><abbr>Μ</abbr><ex>ᾶρκος</ex></expan></name>
						    <name type="nomen" key="Aurelius"><expan><abbr>Αὐρ</abbr><ex>ήλιος</ex></expan></name>
						    <name type="cognomen" key="Severus"><expan><abbr>Σευῆ</abbr><ex>ρος</ex></expan></name>
						    <name type="cognomen" key="Alexander">Ἀλέζανδρος</name>
						    <name type="title" key="Augustus"><expan><abbr>Αὔγ</abbr><ex>ουστος</ex></expan></name>
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                    <ab n="obverse">Marcus Aurelius Severus Alexander Augustus</ab>
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                    <ab n="reverse">of the Byzantines</ab>
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                <div type="commentary" subtype="face" n="obv"><p>laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Severus Alexander, right, seen from rear</p></div>
                <div type="commentary" subtype="face" n="rev"><p>three nude athletes, the one at left standing, right, holding palm branch, the one at right standing facing, head left, holding palm branch and extending hand over urn, in the middle, the one in the middle standing, left</p></div>
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                        <ref target="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/53118">https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/53118</ref>
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