Æ17 - Claudius ΣΥΙΛΛΙΟΣ ΑΝΤΙΟΧΟΣ ΙΕΡΑΠΟΛΙΤΩΝ

Hierapolis in Phrygia sat at the junction of several major Anatolian trade routes, and its civic coinage under Claudius reflects a city actively advertising its elite to Rome. The magistrate name preserved here — Suillius Antiochos — almost certainly connects to the family of P. Suillius Rufus, the notorious advocate and political operator exiled under Nero shortly after this coin was struck. Local magistracies in the conventus of Cibyra frequently went to men with Roman citizenship grafted onto Greek names, and this piece is a clean example of that provincial negotiation.