Æ18 - Marcus Aurelius ΕΠΙ ΤΙΤΙΑΝΟΥ ϹΑΙΤΤΗΝΩΝ

Saitta was a minor Lydian city whose civic coinage under Marcus Aurelius corresponds almost precisely with the opening years of his reign and the devastating Antonine Plague, which struck the eastern provinces hard beginning around 165 AD. The magistrate name Titianos recorded in the obverse legend helps anchor this issue within a narrow administrative window — local strategos names are among the few tools available for sequencing otherwise undatable Saittene bronzes.