Æ12 - Augustus ΤΗΙΩΝ

Teos, a coastal Ionian city best known in antiquity as the birthplace of the lyric poet Anacreon, issued bronze civic coinage under Augustus as part of the broader reorganization of the Greek East following Actium. The city fell within the conventus of Smyrna, one of the judicial districts Rome imposed across the province of Asia to manage what had become an extraordinarily complex administrative inheritance from the Attalid kingdom.

The ethnic ΤΗΙΩΝ — "of the Teians" — places civic pride front and center even as Roman authority reshaped the political ground beneath it.