Æ15 - Augustus ΙΕΡΑΠΟΛΕΙΤΩΝ ΗΡΑΣ

Hierapolis in Phrygia sat on the road network connecting the Maeander valley to the interior, which made it commercially consequential enough to strike its own civic bronze well into the imperial period. This issue dates to the early Augustan reorganization of Asia Minor, when cities like Hierapolis were actively minting small bronzes to fill the gap left by the near-total absence of Roman imperial coinage at the local transaction level. The cult of Hera at Hierapolis was longstanding and the city's ethnic — ΙΕΡΑΠΟΛΕΙΤΩΝ — appears consistently on civic issues as a marker of municipal autonomy under Roman oversight.