Hypaepa was a small Lydian city whose civic coinage under Augustus leaned heavily on local magistrate names — Attalos here almost certainly a municipal official rather than a dynast. The Conventus of Ephesus grouped dozens of such minor Lydian and Ionian communities under Roman administrative oversight, and their bronze issues were purely local exchange, never travelling far.
Hypaepa was a small Lydian city whose civic coinage under Augustus leaned heavily on local magistrate names — Attalos here almost certainly a municipal official rather than a dynast. The Conventus of Ephesus grouped dozens of such minor Lydian and Ionian communities under Roman administrative oversight, and their bronze issues were purely local exchange, never travelling far.