Sardes served as the seat of one of the seven conventus juridici — Roman assize districts — established in Asia Minor, meaning the city hosted periodic courts where the Roman proconsul of Asia dispensed justice across a wide catchment of communities. Local bronze issues from this period often functioned as much as civic advertisement as currency, asserting a city's administrative importance within the Roman provincial hierarchy. The strategos named in the inscription, Λιβωνιανος, would have held magisterial responsibility for the issue itself.
Sardes served as the seat of one of the seven conventus juridici — Roman assize districts — established in Asia Minor, meaning the city hosted periodic courts where the Roman proconsul of Asia dispensed justice across a wide catchment of communities. Local bronze issues from this period often functioned as much as civic advertisement as currency, asserting a city's administrative importance within the Roman provincial hierarchy. The strategos named in the inscription, Λιβωνιανος, would have held magisterial responsibility for the issue itself.