Æ14 - Augustus ΕΥΜΕΝΕΩΝ ΚΑΣΤΟΡΙΣ ΣΩΤΙΡΑ

Eumenea, a Phrygian city refounded by Attalid rulers in the second century BC and named for Eumenes II of Pergamon, passed into Roman provincial administration following the bequest of the Attalid kingdom in 133 BC. The magistrate name preserved in this issue — Kastor, son of Sotira — is characteristic of the Greek civic coinage tradition whereby local officials secured their names on bronze through the minting process, a form of municipal prestige with no Roman equivalent at this scale.