Æ16 - Trajan ΣΚΗ

Scepsis was a minor Troad city with an outsized claim to intellectual history — ancient sources credit it as the place where Aristotle's library was hidden after his death, buried in a pit to protect it from the book-hungry Attalid kings of Pergamon. By Trajan's reign the city had long since faded from any real significance, absorbed into the Roman provincial structure under the Adramyteum conventus, one of the judicial districts through which the governor of Asia administered the region. Coins of Scepsis under the empire are rare precisely because the city mattered so little.