Æ15 - Hadrian ΔΙΟΝΥϹΟΠΟΛΕΙΤΩΝ

Dionysopolis in Phrygia was a minor civic center within the conventus of Apamea, one of the judicial districts Rome imposed on Asia Minor to administer an increasingly complex provincial population. Hadrian's reign saw a pronounced surge in civic bronze coinage across Phrygia — cities competed for imperial favor, and the act of issuing coins bearing the emperor's name was itself a political gesture, a bid for status within the conventus hierarchy.

The reference III#2576 places this among a sparsely documented group; very few specimens are recorded, and die linkage studies for Dionysopolitan issues of this period remain incomplete.