Æ18 - Marcus Aurelius FAVST AVGVS

Parium, a Roman colony on the Propontis coast, was one of the few Mysian cities to retain active civic bronze production into the joint reign of Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus. The abbreviated reverse legend referencing Faustina the Younger — FAVST AVGVS — places this piece in the early co-reign, before her death in 175 AD. Colonial bronzes from the Adramyteum conventus are notably underrepresented in major collections, partly because the region's output was modest and partly because Asia Minor provincials in small modules were long dismissed by 19th-century collectors in favor of larger civic issues.