Æ17 - Trajan ΝΑΚΡΑϹΙΤΩΝ

Nacrasa was a minor Lydian city whose civic coinage output under Trajan was limited enough that individual issues remain poorly documented — III#1795 is one of relatively few attributed types from this mint for the reign. The city sat within the Pergamene conventus, the administrative district through which Roman judicial and financial authority was channeled in western Asia Minor, and local bronze issues like this one functioned at the lowest level of that regional economy, never traveling far.