Æ16 - Nero ΒΑϹϹΑ ΚΛΕωΝΟϹ ΑΡΧΙΕΡΗΑ ΕΥΜΕΝΕΩΝ

Eumenea, a Phrygian city refounded by Attalid rulers and later absorbed into the Roman province of Asia, retained the right to strike civic bronze under Nero — a privilege that was politically conditional, not automatic. The magistrate name preserved in this coin's legend, likely a local archiereus (high priest of the imperial cult), points to the administrative machinery Rome used to bind provincial elites to the emperor's divine honors. These small civic bronzes from the Apamean conventus rarely traveled far; they were intensely local instruments, absorbed into regional markets and seldom found outside Phrygia.