Æ17 - Nero ΕΠΙ ΤΙ ΔΑΜΑ ΜΙ

Miletus had been minting autonomous bronze for decades before Nero's reign, but this civic issue — naming the local magistrate Ti. Damas — reflects the city's continued practice of embedding local administrative identity into imperial coinage. The magistrate's name dominates the reverse formula, a reminder that provincial minting under the early empire was a civic privilege managed by local officials, not a Roman imposition.

RPC I 2717 records multiple specimens, with weight variation suggesting production across more than one die pair during the reign's fourteen-year span.