Æ15 - Trajan ΘΥΑΤΕΙΡΗΝΩΝ

Thyatira sat at a critical junction in the Hermus valley road system, making it one of the more commercially active cities of Lydia under Roman administration. The city's bronze coinage under Trajan was produced locally under the authority of the conventus centered at Pergamum, which exercised oversight of civic coin production across a broad swath of western Anatolia. Small module bronzes like this one handled day-to-day transactions that Roman silver simply couldn't reach.