Æ18 - Antoninus Pius ΕΠΙ ΑΝΔΡΟΝΕΙΚΟΥ (ϹΑΛ)

Sala was a minor Lydian city in the conventus of Sardis whose civic coinage under Antoninus Pius is distinguished almost entirely by its magistrate series. The name ΑΝΔΡΟΝΕΙΚΟΣ appearing in the obverse legend identifies the sitting grammateus or civic official responsible for authorizing the issue — a practice common in Asia Minor whereby local magistrates essentially underwrote bronze production as a civic duty, sometimes at personal financial cost.

The abbreviation ϹΑΛ confirms the Sala attribution, a city whose output was modest enough that individual magistrate issues remain individually traceable in the surviving record.