Æ16 - Marcus Aurelius ΑΚΡΑϹΙΩΤΩΝ

Acrasus was a minor Lydian city whose civic coinage output was modest even by provincial standards. This piece falls within the co-reign of Marcus Aurelius and Commodus, following the latter's elevation to Augustus in 177 AD — a political arrangement that explains the burst of provincial loyalty issues across the Pergamene conventus in 178–179, as cities scrambled to acknowledge the new dynastic reality.