Æ19 - Augustus ΣΑΡΔΙΑΝΩΝ ΚΑΙ ΠΕΡΓΑΜΗΝΩΝ ΜΟΥΣΑΙΟΣ

This bronze was struck under the joint civic authority of Sardis and Pergamon — an unusual pairing that reflects the competitive world of Greek city honorifics under Augustus, where cities jockeyed for prestige through shared coinage arrangements and the cultivation of imperial cult associations. The magistrate name Mousaios appears in the nominative, identifying the issuing official, a naming convention that allows some prosopographical tracking across the Sardis series. Pergamon's inclusion here likely reflects its role as the primary seat of the imperial cult in Asia, lending institutional weight to issues produced alongside it.