Æ17 - Tiberius ΑΡΤΑΣ ΚΤΙΣΤΗΣ

Prymnessus was a minor Phrygian city whose civic coinage under Tiberius is notable chiefly for its invocation of a founding figure — ΑΡΤΑΣ ΚΤΙΣΤΗΣ, "Artas the Founder" — a local hero otherwise unattested in surviving literary sources. The city fell within the conventus of Synnada, one of the judicial districts Rome used to administer Asia, and its bronze issues circulated in a region where Greek civic identity was maintained largely through exactly this kind of honorific numismatic assertion.