Æ15 - Nero ΜΑΙΟΝΩΝ ΜΕΝΕΚΡΑΤΟΥϹ, ΕΠ Τ ΚΛ

Maeonia was a small Lydian city whose civic coinage under Nero almost invariably names a local magistrate — here Menekrates, serving under the magistracy of T. Claudius, whose partial title appears in the legend. The city issued sporadically and in small volume, which accounts for why RPC I 2982 turns up so infrequently in trade. Provincial bronze at this scale from interior Lydia rarely traveled far from the issuing city before being lost or recycled.