Æ18 - Antoninus Pius ΕΠΙ Γ ΑΝ (sic) Ι (sic) ΑΝΔΡΩΝΟϹ

Alabanda, a city in Caria whose inhabitants were mocked by Cicero in De Oratore for their cultural pretensions, struck this issue under the magistrate whose name appears on the obverse in an unusually garbled form — the sic notations on both ΑΝ and Ι signal a cutter either working from dictation or poorly copying an unfamiliar name. Provincial bronze of this region was engraved locally, and lapses in Greek epigraphy on Carian civic issues are not uncommon, but a double sic on a single magistrate's name is worth noting.